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Mistake on appropriate wealth for PCs in 4e by the end of Digging for Lies?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7451426" data-attributes="member: 6920268"><p>I have never bothered with 4th ed so my advice may be wrong</p><p></p><p>In general since the concept of WBL was introduced it has been assumed rightly/wrongly that pc's will use up consumables so the total amount of wealth they will have received by a specfic level is greater than the value of the equipment they will own at each level. However as WBL is just a guideline if your players are stingy like my experience of players in general and hate to use consumables they will often end up with more gear than the WBL table , certainly this is true for all pathfinder AP's I have actually run or played also most published AP's provide slightly more treasure than needed as some may be destroyed/not found/used rather than looted.</p><p></p><p>For this AP I have kept things simple rather than bothering with stipends and giving them lumps of cash at intervals I just let them have WBL of equipment each time they level up and let them replace any gear they want to replace, it may be more complicated if the pc's can craft their own items but so far I have not had to worry about that.</p><p></p><p>So decide if you care about the difference between actual wealth and the WBL if you do wreck enough of their gear to bring them down (your players will hate you but it may be fun for you!) or give them less cash in the future until things even out. Or go with the flow and upgrade the opponents if it starts to matter, I find I have to rebuil most if not all combat encounters anyway as the level of character optimisation is impossible for the author to predict and my players normally overshoot and would walk most published encounters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 7451426, member: 6920268"] I have never bothered with 4th ed so my advice may be wrong In general since the concept of WBL was introduced it has been assumed rightly/wrongly that pc's will use up consumables so the total amount of wealth they will have received by a specfic level is greater than the value of the equipment they will own at each level. However as WBL is just a guideline if your players are stingy like my experience of players in general and hate to use consumables they will often end up with more gear than the WBL table , certainly this is true for all pathfinder AP's I have actually run or played also most published AP's provide slightly more treasure than needed as some may be destroyed/not found/used rather than looted. For this AP I have kept things simple rather than bothering with stipends and giving them lumps of cash at intervals I just let them have WBL of equipment each time they level up and let them replace any gear they want to replace, it may be more complicated if the pc's can craft their own items but so far I have not had to worry about that. So decide if you care about the difference between actual wealth and the WBL if you do wreck enough of their gear to bring them down (your players will hate you but it may be fun for you!) or give them less cash in the future until things even out. Or go with the flow and upgrade the opponents if it starts to matter, I find I have to rebuil most if not all combat encounters anyway as the level of character optimisation is impossible for the author to predict and my players normally overshoot and would walk most published encounters. [/QUOTE]
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