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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 477619" data-attributes="member: 63">Remember, you can Take 20 on Wealth checks to purchase things, so even a person with a crappy roll for his Wealth (3), can afford a car if he has the Profession skill (+1 for Wealth 3) and is a blue-collar worker (+2 for Wealth 5).  After you get all the basics for him, you buy a used car or truck by Taking 20.  It's likely to reduce him to 0 Wealth, because most of his money will be going paying off the car and keeping it fixed.Nah, the only time the Wealth rules get freaky is once your Wealth is above 20, because of the little rule that says anything with a purchase DC of 15 or higher automatically reduces your Wealth by 1.  If you take that too literally, Bill Gates (Wealth 50) can buy a Lear Jet that costs millions of dollars, or a used car that costs a couple thousand, and either purchase would cause his Wealth to drop to 49.  However, he couldn't buy a hundred used cars individually, even though together they cost less than a tenth of just one lear jet.But most PCs won't reach that level of Wealth, and if they do, the GM can just use common sense.</blockquote>