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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 3094649" data-attributes="member: 1165">That won't work unless you take a heavy hand with the Profession skill. The Profession skill represents money making through jobs or real estate deals, etc. Those things take time, but if you want to be technical, Profession gives you money at level-up without exception, even if you blow your roll.Furthermore, PCs don't have many things to spend money on (except bullets, but those are so cheap that PCs won't lose Wealth on them unless they're starting characters who spent money on cars and sniper rifles and so dropped to like 3 Wealth). Other low magic systems like Iron Heroes run into the exact same thing. You got a stack of cash for adventuring, but there's almost nothing to spend the cash on. The most expensive things you can buy are a car (which a starting character might afford, at the cost of dropping their Wealth to zero, but that's okay because only one PC needs to do so) and then a house. If you're letting heroes max out Profession and don't control it they'll be able to afford a house even if they get no cash from adventures.Shadowrun (a campaign setting and also rule set) kind of assumes the PCs are "starving" (a lot of adventures start assuming the PCs got drunk and spent more money than they should the night before, and are now hung over when they get a job offer), for lack of a better word. There's no "free stuff" rule, but even so bullets aren't too expensive, and only some characters really need a lot of money. (Cyborgs are a money sink!)Zhab from the WotC boards had a really neat Profession house rule. You only make checks when called for. Furthermore, there's a cap to the rank benefit you gain at each level equal to your Profession score. (So, if you have 10 Wealth right now, enough ranks in Profession to gain 3 Wealth from a level-up rank benefit, but your current Profession value is +11 (no Wis bonus, no Windfall feat), you would only gain 2 Wealth.) At that point, you can only raise your Wealth through adventuring instead of just getting windfalls every level-up.I agree that the conspiracy is more important. Getting a house is suddenly less important than saving the world, you know.</blockquote>

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