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Drastically nerf the barter value of fiction books
Inglonias Nov 17, 2025
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Adjusted prices upwards somewhat
Inglonias Nov 18, 2025
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22 changes: 11 additions & 11 deletions data/json/items/book/abstract.json
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"volume": "1100 ml",
"longest_side": "23 cm",
"price": "19 USD 99 cent",
"price_postapoc": "15 USD",
"price_postapoc": "3 USD 50 cent",
"material": [ "paper", "cardboard" ],
"copy-from": "book_fict_tpl",
"melee_damage": { "bash": 2 }
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"volume": "662 ml",
"longest_side": "18 cm",
"price": "7 USD 99 cent",
"price_postapoc": "15 USD",
"price_postapoc": "2 USD 50 cent",
"material": [ "paper" ],
"flags": [ ],
"copy-from": "book_fict_tpl",
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"description": "This is a template for pulp books. Which really all ought to be paperbacks, right?",
"looks_like": "novel_pulp",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "intelligence": -1, "chapters": -2, "fun": 1, "price": "-200 cent", "price_postapoc": "-10 USD" }
"relative": { "intelligence": -1, "chapters": -2, "fun": 1, "price": "-200 cent" }
},
{
"abstract": "book_fict_soft_scifi_tpl",
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"description": "This is a template for pulp new-age books. They're theoretically nonfiction.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_pulp_tpl",
"weight": "250 g",
"relative": { "chapters": -6, "price": "25 USD", "price_postapoc": "-1 USD" }
"relative": { "chapters": -6, "price": "25 USD" }
},
{
"abstract": "book_nonf_hard_sports_tpl",
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"volume": "400 ml",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"time": "11 m",
"relative": { "price": "-351 cent", "price_postapoc": "-800 cents", "chapters": -8, "intelligence": -1 }
"relative": { "price": "-351 cent", "chapters": -8, "intelligence": -1 }
},
{
"abstract": "paperback_romance_lnl",
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"name": { "str": "Lorn and Loan Romance Novel" },
"description": "Lorn and Loan Press marketed romance paperbacks to a variety of alt demographics, especially those with a penchant for eyeliner. The books are billed as \"provocative,\" but words like \"malingering\" and \"turgid\" also come to mind.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-400 cents", "intelligence": 1, "fun": -1 }
"relative": { "intelligence": 1, "fun": -1 }
},
{
"abstract": "paperback_romance_vanilla",
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"name": { "str": "Vanilla Romance Novel" },
"description": "Vanilla Media is a mainstream publisher providing romantic literature to everyday readers of taste. These stories contain explicit details only in the odd chapters, and invariably end with a conventionally uplifting moral.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-1 USD", "intelligence": -1 }
"relative": { "intelligence": -1 }
},
{
"abstract": "paperback_western_em",
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"name": { "str": "The Everyman Library" },
"description": "The Everyman Library is an imprint of Vanilla Media that publishes stories about private eyes, cowboys, quarterbacks, and mobsters.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-1 USD", "intelligence": -1 }
"relative": { "intelligence": -1 }
},
{
"abstract": "book_fict_soft_ya_vanilla",
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"name": { "str": "Tween Topics" },
"description": "Tween Topics is an imprint of Vanilla Media that publishes stories that appeal to the youth of today. Or, failing that, the parents of said youth.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-4 USD", "intelligence": -1, "fun": -1 }
"relative": { "intelligence": -1, "fun": -1 }
},
{
"abstract": "book_fict_soft_ya_quiddity",
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"name": { "str": "Quiddity Books" },
"description": "Quiddity publishes books for young adults. They offer stories about self-discovery, personal identity, and contemporary trends.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-4 USD", "chapters": 7 }
"relative": { "chapters": 7 }
},
{
"abstract": "book_fict_hard_ya_quiddity",
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"volume": "1014 ml",
"longest_side": "22 cm",
"copy-from": "book_fict_hard_tpl",
"relative": { "price_postapoc": "-4 USD", "chapters": 10 }
"relative": { "chapters": 10 }
},
{
"abstract": "book_fict_soft_satire_tpl",
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"name": { "str": "Brave New World", "str_pl": "copies of Brave New World" },
"description": "This is weather worn copy of \"Brave New World\" by Aldous Huxley looks like it has been left out in rain. The novel begins in a bleak building where fetuses are grown in bottles on an assembly line.",
"copy-from": "book_fict_soft_scifi_tpl",
"relative": { "chapters": -6, "price_postapoc": "-1490 cents" }
"relative": { "chapters": -6 }
},
{
"id": "book_fict_soft_scifi_roadp",
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