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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 3081106" data-attributes="member: 1879">Ever notice how when you have two problems they can solve each other?The designing a goverment for D&D thread got me to wondering abou those adventuring family dynasties and why the world seems to be chock full of wealth loaded crypts, dungeons, lost cities etc... Instead of dominated by a few hideously powerful dynasties of families that load the kids down with disproportionate wealth (meaning magical power) and send them off to rocket up to high levels by wasting a load of goblins with Aunt Betty's necklace of fireballs.And then I wondered 'And where do dragons get all their gold and loot anyway?' Ohhhhh.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Heh heh heh. So when Billy Bob, son of Kongor the Exsanguinator grabs his dad's kit and goes off to slay CR appropriate monsters he gets ambushed by a CR inappropriate dragon who's looking to redecorate the lair. Perhaps a lot of those lairs and dungeons are built by civic commities looking to divest the wealth of dead adventurers before Darkscale the Dispeptic does to them what Smaug did to the Lonely Mountain. Or not, but it may well at this point be well known in the adventuring community that when you retire and you no longer have the rest of the group to watch your back it's an excellent idea to divest yourself of all the shiny glowy loot before the wyrms come calling. So junior may get a sword +1 or the family Haversack but he's not gonna get Stormbringer.An interesting side effect of adding this into your world construction is that it implies the proprietor of Crazy Vaclav's Magic Emporium is either REALLY powerful, or he has a deal with the dragons (all of them?), or he keeps little stock on hand and mostly knows people who have stuff or can do commisions.Anyone want to kick this idea around?</blockquote>

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