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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GnomeWorks" data-source="post: 6040952" data-attributes="member: 162">It would certainly be more interesting to have to deal with the resources gathered from a dungeon than having it simply be "you find X thousand GPs."I know that some might argue that it adds an unnecessary step, that the resources essentially translate directly to GP and you're just adding an extra five minutes of "wasted time" for the translation. But I think it adds a bit of versimilitude, and also always for the DM to deal with the economics of the setting a bit (in a place with a high owlbear population, owlbear pelts and their respective pieces/parts might not sell for crap, but they might sell better elsewhere).That's not what I was getting at.I think more what I was getting at was like the 3e Artificer, but with less magic and more focused on gathering the resources necessary for item creation, rather than just being handed a pool of points. Combine that style of class/concept with a more resource-centric style of loot distribution to the players, and it's really close, I think, to what I'm talking about.Why?Your post mentions realistic-ish training times for such professions. Yet high-level D&D almost always has characters that are ridiculously superhuman. A human can be 19 years old and a 20th-level wizard, able to wish anything into existence... but him being a master blacksmith is somehow absurd?I personally like the idea of a traveling craftsman, someone who - by some means - has surpassed the talent of average craftsmen, and needs to head into the world to find ways to improve their skill beyond what can be taught, or to find the resources to take advantage of their improved skill because no one else can get them (for instance, if it takes a crazy-awesome person to work adamantine, how many people in the world will be able to work it? If no one can work it, why would anyone gather it? - and so the high-level craftsman has to go and get it).I mean, yes, you can have these people present just as NPCs in the world. But you can also just have a party hire high-level fighters, too. Or utilize the services of high-level clerics. I'm not trying to argue that every party should include a craftsman, or that it should be something worthy of a significant amount of attention in the game. But having it as an option, just like playing a fighter or explorer or faceman, makes sense to me.</blockquote>

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