Silver and Jade

Permutations

• Resources Rating vs Resources Purchases

Investing

• Every investment is rated as a Resource purchase.
• Every investment has what is called a turnaround time, which is the amount of time it takes an investment to determine success or failure,and the degree thereof.

Shielded Resources

Resources that come to a character through Backing of some kind are far more reliable and solid than normal Resources. Where unshielded Resources are based on the character's own wheeling and dealing, making money where he can and generally tending to his own finances, Shielded Resources come to a character through the organization to which he belongs. This may be in the form of a salary, or it may simply reflect investments and income that come about as a result of association with that organization.

A Backing Background can protect up to its rating in Resources. Multiple Backing Backgrounds do not stack; the Resources of that character is simply protected by the best of them.

Benefits: Shielded Resources benefit in the following ways:

• Regeneration: Instead of Resources rating dropping permanently by a single dot when a Resources purchase of equal value is made, the drop occurs only until the next month. This, of course, is only the case if the Backing shielding the Resources rating is of equal or greater rating.
• Immunity to Attack: Shielded Resources ratings are immune to attack by the Silver and Jade system, to a degree. Shielded Resources cannot be eroded below the rating of the Backing serving to shield them.