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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zustiur" data-source="post: 6041332" data-attributes="member: 1544">Yes, that's another thing that bothers me. Why do goblins etc have gold? Shouldn't they have more 'goods' and less 'coin'?</blockquote>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?[/quote]Ah, but you see, I want to slow down level advancement accordingly. A 20th level [adventuring] wizard should be between 25 and 30. Their peak, prior to [medieval] old age issues setting in.I believe GnomeWorks is referring primarily to mundane items such as a sword, not to magic items such as a sword +1.Excellent point. If 'boots' are a resource, and not having boots is detrimental, then being a leathersmith is useful.Stood in a puddle of acid? X hp damage and your boots are destroyed. You suffer penalty Y until you get new boots.What's that? You fell into the vat of acid? Well, aside from the HP damage, all of your mundane items have been destroyed. You'll be the laughing stock of the village unless you convince someone to lend you their pants.I seem to be having this conversation across multiple threads right now, but I'd love to play a game like that. It might not be a top selling fun for everyone game that DND needs to be, but it'd be a hoot to try. I'm thinking of the kind of game where the fighter wears leather armour because he can walk a longer distance in a day. Or where he uses padded armour for overland travel, and only wears heavy armour when there's clear danger (in the dungeon). The same kind of game where the party spends resources (money) on mules and henchmen to carry the supplies they need, and to guard the mules respectively. The same kind of game where each character carries significant quantities of fresh water, even when not venturing into a known desert.[/QUOTE]

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