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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1711866" data-attributes="member: 16936">This has always been my favorite version.Especially considering the whacked-out economy of vanilla D&D, where monsters who spend all their time squatting in a filthy lair somehow have more treasure (both in coins and in magic items) than a village of a thousand people.  You know, where somehow the rules assume that adventurers will have massive financial resources (especially wizards!) but somehow everyone else will barely be able to afford to eat dirt.It just makes so much more sense when you realize that the best adventurers are A-list celebrities who are involved with Important Causes, and the worst adventurers are strung-out rock stars with serious entitlement issues.  And no one can get away from them...go down to the local tavern, and you can bet cash money (which you probably don't have, being a commoner) that the bard will be singing about some adventurer who did something cool once upon a time.  Go listen to the town crier, and he'll be bleating on about how mighty adventurers are needed to avert the disaster which looms over us all.  And out in the yard after their chores are done, your sons and daughters are waving sticks around like they're swords or wands, re-enacting the Raid on the Temple of Inexplicable Evil, and talking about all the stuff they'd buy if they were wealthy successful adventurers.--and somehow "a farm" and "livestock" never end up on those listsryan</blockquote>

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