Cash Assets For High Level Characters In The SRD?

[Altamont Ravenard]

A formula you can use, for levels 3-10, is:

(((1.3^(level)) * 4,000) / 10) * level

and for levels 11-20:

((1.3^(level)) * 4,000)

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

And for NPC's (levels 3-20) a good approximation is:

((1.3)^(level)*1150)

 

[kigmatzomat]

The table that lists the cash value of equipment that characters can be expected to have acquired as they rise in level; is it in the SRD or is it one of the value added bits of the books?

Kind of. Get the Treasures.rtf from the 3.5 SRD. It lists the avg treasure per encounter. We know you get ~12 encounters/level for an average party of 4 meaning each PC gets 12/4 =3 treasures/level. Assume some gets expended or you only get partial value for selling it and we round down a bit to 2.5 treasures/encounter.

Do a little summation and you get something like this:

gp Treasure
per per Total
EL Encounter Level Treasure
1 300 750 750
2 600 1,500 2,250
3 900 2,250 4,500
4 1,200 3,000 7,500
5 1,600 4,000 11,500
6 2,000 5,000 16,500
7 2,600 6,500 23,000
8 3,400 8,500 31,500
9 4,500 11,250 42,750
10 5,800 14,500 57,250
11 7,500 18,750 76,000
12 9,800 24,500 100,500
13 13,000 32,500 133,000
14 17,000 42,500 175,500
15 22,000 55,000 230,500
16 28,000 70,000 300,500
17 36,000 90,000 390,500
18 47,000 117,500 508,000
19 61,000 152,500 660,500
20 80,000 200,000 860,500

Exact? No. OGL-friendly? Yes.

 

[silburnl]

Thanks for the various replies and apologies that I haven't replied sooner - work has been busy.

My specific problem that prompted the initial query was the amount of stuff I could give to the newly 5th level cohort I'm introducing into a game next week.

Going by the formula Altamont posted I get 7425,86gp whereas Kigmatzomat's table derived from the treasures/EL stats gives me 7500gp for a character that has completed 4 character levels.

So I take it that assuming a fund of 7500gp won't get me into trouble with my DM or bring the WotC IP vultures down on my head?


One further comment to Altamont:

The table of variances you posted in your post critiqueing the level^3*100 formula doesn't appear to match the later stuff you posted. If we take the end of level 4 then a character could either have 6400gp by the formula or 7500gp by the actual table. In which case the variance listed in your table should be 0.853 (ie 1 / 1.18) rather than 1.18. I presume the same holds for the other variance values you have listed.

Regards
Luke