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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8386370" data-attributes="member: 7025997">There are a lot of good comments and suggestions here. These are my opinions only:D&amp;D is largely built around the acquisition of money and treasure (in addition to levels, of course), so tracking that works thematically. As you go up you can buy swords+2 or even a castle. (Of course, a real medieval nobleman had a lot of non-liquid wealth in terms of land holdings with various obligations to a liege lord and the like; you wouldn't really want to roleplay a bailiff feuding with the tax collectors over how many bushels of wheat the peasants were delivering. If anything it was probably more complicated as you couldn't punch your holdings into Morningstar Financial X-Ray to see how much they were worth, and nobody really knew that anyway.) As Raduin711 says, modern-day games usually aren't built around getting rich; as such abstracting it makes sense. Also, wealth is somewhat more complicated, at least in the popular understanding--do you want to keep track of your fictional character's home value and stock portfolio? A modern-day game built around the acquisition of money? That's too much like real life, I think. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8386370, member: 7025997"] There are a lot of good comments and suggestions here. These are my opinions only: D&D is largely built around the acquisition of money and treasure (in addition to levels, of course), so tracking that works thematically. As you go up you can buy swords+2 or even a castle. (Of course, a real medieval nobleman had a lot of non-liquid wealth in terms of land holdings with various obligations to a liege lord and the like; you wouldn't really want to roleplay a bailiff feuding with the tax collectors over how many bushels of wheat the peasants were delivering. If anything it was probably [I]more [/I]complicated as you couldn't punch your holdings into Morningstar Financial X-Ray to see how much they were worth, and nobody really knew that anyway.) As Raduin711 says, modern-day games usually aren't built around getting rich; as such abstracting it makes sense. Also, wealth is somewhat more complicated, at least in the popular understanding--do you want to keep track of your fictional character's home value and stock portfolio? A modern-day game built around the acquisition of money? That's too much like real life, I think. ;) [/QUOTE]

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