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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6920698" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>I'm kind of at a loss of how you get from "DM awards give too much gold for the XP award" to "the gold is fine, you should give more XP". Granted, either solution would work to reduce the XP to gold ratio, but I get the feeling that the XP awards are much more deliberately chosen, and that the gold award was just eye-balled as being 'ballpark'. Guys, it's not ballpark -- it grants way too much gold for the XP and should be reduced to be more in line with PC awards.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Obviously I disagree, because 'being OP' isn't something that just goes away after a few levels, specifically because being a DM isn't something you do for a few months to build up DM awards and then stop -- DMs will generally always be DMing and always be getting DM awards with excessive gold associated with them. If you don't adjust the gold award, the situation doesn't just fix itself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And that has to do with the question of whether the gold award is too large, how exactly?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll agree with this, but clearly the DM awards aren't intended to keep the DM at exactly the same level as the players at her table, otherwise the DM award would be exactly the same as the player award at that table.</p><p></p><p>As long as we're using personal anecdotes, I recently sat down at a tier 1 table with a character built entirely from DM awards where I already had the best armor for my class (studded leather), a silvered dagger, two healing potions, and a magical longbow. Did I *need* all that stuff to contribute to the adventure? No, I didn't, but I could have it given the current DM awards structure, so why not?</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 6920698, member: 17607"] I'm kind of at a loss of how you get from "DM awards give too much gold for the XP award" to "the gold is fine, you should give more XP". Granted, either solution would work to reduce the XP to gold ratio, but I get the feeling that the XP awards are much more deliberately chosen, and that the gold award was just eye-balled as being 'ballpark'. Guys, it's not ballpark -- it grants way too much gold for the XP and should be reduced to be more in line with PC awards. Obviously I disagree, because 'being OP' isn't something that just goes away after a few levels, specifically because being a DM isn't something you do for a few months to build up DM awards and then stop -- DMs will generally always be DMing and always be getting DM awards with excessive gold associated with them. If you don't adjust the gold award, the situation doesn't just fix itself. And that has to do with the question of whether the gold award is too large, how exactly? I'll agree with this, but clearly the DM awards aren't intended to keep the DM at exactly the same level as the players at her table, otherwise the DM award would be exactly the same as the player award at that table. As long as we're using personal anecdotes, I recently sat down at a tier 1 table with a character built entirely from DM awards where I already had the best armor for my class (studded leather), a silvered dagger, two healing potions, and a magical longbow. Did I *need* all that stuff to contribute to the adventure? No, I didn't, but I could have it given the current DM awards structure, so why not? -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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