Make Asset (Action)

Make a non-commodity physical asset, such as a statue, building, fortress, bridge, or road.

The Duration is equal to the asset value in $ times 6, divided by your number of Families.

Alternatively, you can invest $5 per month (or ~$0.17 per day) per Family to calculate the Duration.

The minimum Duration is 1 day per $1,000. Even if you have liquid capital (i.e. silver, gold) on hand, expensive assets require extensive negotiations as well as search & construction periods.

When the Duration elapses, Save.

Result	Effect
Crit (≥12)	The asset is complete on time & clever management has eliminated the debts involved in the asset's creation (if any were made through prior cost overruns).
Pass (8–11)	The asset is complete on time.
Seven (7)	There were cost overruns. You can either find a valid Faction who will loan you 10% of the asset's value within the next week to complete it, or set a new Duration to finish the project using the remaining cost as the basis.
Failure (3–6)	There were cost overruns. You can either find a valid Faction who will loan you 50% of the asset's value within the next week to complete it, or set a new Duration to finish the project using the remaining cost as the basis.
Fumble (≤2)	The construction fails catastrophically. You lose 10% of your Followers; roll for a Random Faction Event & interpret it as the worst possible consequence of the failed efforts.

Characters may treat their job as a Fact. Similarly, applicable Facts (i.e. greed, thriftiness) may indicate higher production capacity than your Faction's Followers otherwise suggests. In addition, if you have a liquid sum (such as silver dollars you plundered), you can simply dump that into an Asset.

Then again, even a master blacksmith is Level 3 — he has journeymen & apprentices under him — and a fundamental tenet of Glass Empires is that no man is an island. If you need better production capacity, the best place to get it is to learn to command.