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At the risk of sounding like a smug, pompous know-it-all--I don't want to come across that way, but I am one so I can't always help it--...

That sounds . . . circular ;) If OP is glad to not be using gold, great! But I'm agreeing: money is one way you navigate in-game...

I would 100% rather give my PCs an alchemy jug and wait for the shenanigans than give them a +2 sword.

If you have to do a magic shop, I think Ptolus -- which has one of them in a major metropolis -- does it right. The items are...

Yeah a magic shop that you just walk buy downtown is kind of demystifying. A wizard with a particular item that maybe he will part with...

I admit to liking a bit of domain play and proper war gaming in D&D sometimes but I think I basically agree with this. But I don't see...

This is something I (aspire to) solve in the opposite way. I want to give treasure more meaning by providing increasingly impactful...

I think this is just a terminology issue I'm not understanding, not a problem with the article, but for the life of me I can't...

If I'm playing D&D as a GAME, then I prefer XP to come mainly from treasure. This is the method that most closely aligns player...

The big thing milestone xp doesn't do is reward individual characters for what they do and-or not reward them for what they don't do...

XP should be for accomplishing things the game wants me to accomplish, whether killing monsters, overcoming obstacles, finding...

Well, as a player, I don't want "chapters" and I don't expect pacing to be the purview of the GM (outside of things like con events)...

Most of my 5e DnD experience has been this type of "open table" FLGS environment, with single DMs running long (multiple year) campaigns...

Hard to beat the Stymphalian Birds - bronze maneating beaks that pierce armor but are trappable in corkwood, launchable metallic...

For DMs looking to imbue their fantasy worlds with the gritty, relentless authenticity of a true industrial complex, there is no better...