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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7517678" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>That’s a pretty vague idea. </p><p>Just seems like it would add a tax on playing the game at higher levels. Pay to do what you used to be able to do for free. Especially for casters.</p><p>At best it’s just add a treadmill to gear. </p><p></p><p>Alternative, just stop pretending that limiting gold is some kind of hardship.</p><p>If you want less gold… give less gold. It’s ridiculously simple and is actually <em>less</em> work since you’re skipping a step as DM. And at higher levels, you can just continue to use the low level hoards. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Gold does matter. Just not to the combat pillar. It matters more to the roleplaying pillar of a ROLEPLAYING game.</p><p></p><p>Plus, tracking gold pieces is a traditional part of game. It’d be hard to get away from. </p><p></p><p>But, hey, other people have already done alternate wealth systems:</p><p><a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/177820/5MWD-Presents-Variant-Rules" target="_blank">https://www.dmsguild.com/product/177820/5MWD-Presents-Variant-Rules</a></p><p>If you don’t like gold, there are options.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It’s about as good of guidelines as you can manage. </p><p></p><p>Which is worth more, <em>boots of winterlands</em> or <em>slippers of spiderclimb</em>? They’re both uncommon, so they’re the same “price”.</p><p>But which is more valuable if your playing <em>Storm King’s Thunder</em>? But how about <em>Tomb of Annihilation</em>? What if the PC is a aarakocra? Would they pay the same for the slippers as the boots? </p><p>Price is too variable. It changes from campaign to campaign, and character to character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7517678, member: 37579"] That’s a pretty vague idea. Just seems like it would add a tax on playing the game at higher levels. Pay to do what you used to be able to do for free. Especially for casters. At best it’s just add a treadmill to gear. Alternative, just stop pretending that limiting gold is some kind of hardship. If you want less gold… give less gold. It’s ridiculously simple and is actually [i]less[/i] work since you’re skipping a step as DM. And at higher levels, you can just continue to use the low level hoards. Gold does matter. Just not to the combat pillar. It matters more to the roleplaying pillar of a ROLEPLAYING game. Plus, tracking gold pieces is a traditional part of game. It’d be hard to get away from. But, hey, other people have already done alternate wealth systems: [url]https://www.dmsguild.com/product/177820/5MWD-Presents-Variant-Rules[/url] If you don’t like gold, there are options. It’s about as good of guidelines as you can manage. Which is worth more, [i]boots of winterlands[/i] or [i]slippers of spiderclimb[/i]? They’re both uncommon, so they’re the same “price”. But which is more valuable if your playing [i]Storm King’s Thunder[/i]? But how about [i]Tomb of Annihilation[/i]? What if the PC is a aarakocra? Would they pay the same for the slippers as the boots? Price is too variable. It changes from campaign to campaign, and character to character. [/QUOTE]
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