Holy Crap, you have the full rules that allow you to fully know the entire game already? There are non-combat/shopkeeper NPC's? You know all the fluff of the World already too!!!! And how Combat Abilities function in all different circumstances? Holy Crap, we should post this as news!!!!
Lets...
The truth of this is evident. My character right now has in the realm of 20k gold liquid assets, and he is not retiring? In the real world his loved ones would be having him committed and declaring themselves the caretakers of that. But he still adventures. Why, you say? He is a HERO not a commoner.
This brings back to mind Top Secret S/I and the Nuke Rule...
Characters had from 1 to ten damage boxes in each area so Joe Generic could have 5-6 damage boxes say...
Now Evil Terrorist Fred bombs the city with a nuke, which acording to the rules did something like 3d100 Damage. So 3 rolls of 1...
I would do as follows:
DC: 15+2d6 (+1d4 per prior attempt)
Haul: 1d12 Copper, 1d8 Silver, 1d2 gold.
If they beat the DC by 5 or more add +1d4 Gold
Reasoning, most of their targets are poor people who keep track of what little they own.
This also limits the times per day that it can be used.
Ok, then I will touch on that... We all own the PHB, I own 5-7 other books 4-5 of them WOTC, our current DM has 40-50 books, most of them WOTC.... The others will buy books if they catch their interest 1-2 per year....
I can say that after 21 years of gaming I still have yet to *EVER* take a significant break, neither have most of my group and the new players that we have absorbed from other groups when we did lose one. I still gave with 3 of the 6 in my original group (4 including me) and 2 additions to that....
I will second this, it is a great system, not too far removed from D20 Core style and can handle most any modernish thing thrown at it. It also has a very active Dev community on their web site.
Actually this is a *GOOD* point. There is no GSL yet, so employees of competitors would have access to material and may start on items prior to the finalization of said GSL that would prove to be an unfair advantage to them. (Yes I know that other Non-Competitor employees freelancers may already...
Actually it looks like they need a senior Lawyer to vet the final product. I think they should go out of house for this if it is true as this is seriously crimping their Credibility here and with other gamers that are hearing about the delayed/missing GSL/OGL.
I really truly trust WOTC to make...