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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6311510" data-attributes="member: 63">Remind me during daylight hours and I'll dredge up where I saved my original rationale. It might be that I misinterpreted 4e gearage.The idea I have shot for is that, if you make a character at a given level, you level -1, level-1, level, and level+1 worth of stuff. Since we're letting PCs requisition items and return them at cost, they're effectively able to custom pick their gear just like new characters.So with that in mind, I should be able to figure out how much those item value totals are each level, and then figure out the difference between each, and that should be the stipend.Items cost:Level 1 - 360Level 2 - 520Level 3 - 680Level 4 - 840Level 5 - 1000Level 6 - 1800Level 6 - 2600Level 7 - 3400Level 8 - 4200Level 9 - 5000So at level 2 you get 360 + 360 +520 + 680 = 1920.At level 3 you get 520 + 520 + 680 + 840 = 2560. So the stipend ought to be 640.At level 4 you get 680 + 680 + 840 + 1000 = 3200. Stipend is 640.At level 5 you get 840 + 840 + 1000 + 1800 = 4480. Stipend is 1280.At level 6 you get 1000 + 1000 + 1800 + 2600 = 6400. Stipend is 1920.At level 7 you get 1800x2 + 2600 + 3400 = 9600. Stipend is 3200. At level 8 you get 2600x2 + 3400 + 4200 = 12800. Stipend is 3200.At level 9 you get 3400x2 + 4200 + 5000 = 16000. Stipend is 3200.At level 10 you get 4200x2 + 5000 + 9000 = 22400. Stipend is 6400.What did I actually do? *checks adventures* Hm. In adventure 3 they gain 3 levels, from 5th to 8th. So they ought to get 1920 + 3200 + 3200 = 8320. I ended up actually giving them 2900 + 3760 + 5260, which I think is what you get if you look at the values of treasure parcels that the game assumes you give out.In adventure 4, though, they're supposed to go up 2 levels, from 8 to 9, then 9 to 10. I gave the party a stipend of 3200 + 6400. Which is what was supposed to happen, if my math is right and my rationale makes sense.So what happened, basically, is that I started by giving the party stipends with value equal to what they would get in the course of normal adventuring. But that assumes you're trading in items for less than full value, and that some gear doesn't match what you need. So with adventure 3 the audit gets them where they ought to be (12800 total when you're at 8th level).Does that make sense? In-world, the explanation is that the bureaucrats got antsy about how much money they were spending in Flint after the whole Cauldron Hill debacle, so they trimmed funding.</blockquote>

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