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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3412192" data-attributes="member: 18280">Hussar, I certainly accept your evidence of scaling in 1e, and if 3e scaled in the same way I'd be happier with it.  Not to bog you down with minutia, but N1 includes wights and a naga, whereas G1 includes orcs.  Monsters scale more in 3e than 1e, so that in 1e you might have a chance to escape a disasterous encounter that in 3e would be over in a round.  I think that howandwhy99 is spot on, but OTOH I don't think that the wealth-by-level guidelines were ever intended to indicate what level of wealth PCs "deserved".  I have become convinced that they were intended as a DM tool to indicate where the balance points lie.  Having some serious discussion about changing the balance points would have been nice, though.They are both valid points.</blockquote>