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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 5019249" data-attributes="member: 44949">Okay, perhaps a poor choice of wording.  It should have written "D&D does not have to be  a video game where the vendors stand around with unlimited money to buy stuff."There is nothing wrong if your style of play is to hand-wave all economics and just say that the local village has whatever the DMG says they can have sitting around on the shelf ready to buy, plus a ton of handy coinage to buy whatever you are selling right now.  I don't have the slightest problem with that, if that's the kind of game you want to play.Me, I prefer the kinds of games this thread supports.  My players tend to do things like start businesses, maintain their own lands, fund expeditions, hire craftsmen, and otherwise have a direct impact on the economy.  (In more than one game, they were working to create a trade empire.)  We've all read enough history and have enough idea of how things should generally work that the typical D&D economy just breaks down our belief in the system.  A lot of it is the massive price increases in magic items.  At low levels, the minor magic items are like having a warhorse and a set of good armor.  At high levels, to get the value to create the magic items, you'd have to ransom an entire kingdom.  It makes our heads hurt.This thread has given me some great ideas and starting points for further refining the economy of my next campaign.  Of course, 80% of the work will be entirely for my benefit because I enjoy the numbers, but I think it will help make the game that much stronger.So, keep the ideas and the discussion flowing, folks.</blockquote>

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