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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5915800" data-attributes="member: 21169">I'm worried that the PCs would find it more lucrative to ambush other adventuring parties, and stop going down dungeons. It's a potential problem with gold as a reward. If there's an easier way to make gold than getting it from dungeons - taking it from other parties, becoming a merchant, investing in business, becoming the guy who hires parties: an adventurer manager rather than an adventurer - then there's a risk that the PCs could avoid dungeons altogether. That's a problem, because that's the most entertaining form of play, it's what D&D is geared for, and it's easier for the GM to create interesting content in that play mode.Staying as far back as possible is the smartest of smart play in D&D - Tomb of Horrors was first beaten by sending in a small army of orc slaves to set off all the traps. Refusing to enter the dungeon at all is just that tactic taken to a higher level of refinement, imo.A solution does occur to me though, which is only to award xp for gold and magic items the PCs acquire by dungeon delving. Xp for gold and magic items is a wholly gamist construct anyway, so it doesn't matter that this wouldn't be realistic.</blockquote>