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<blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2495453" data-attributes="member: 13164">Remember that Wealth is an abstract concept-you can't really assign a value to the amount of actual &quot;cash&quot; a character has in their accounts.That said, though, it is certainly possible for characters to get ahold of these items with Wealth bonuses much lower than the Purchase DCs.&nbsp; But remember that they have to make a separate Wealth check for each, and if they can only succeed on a natural 20, that's a sizable decrease to their Wealth score.&nbsp; They'd be better off waiting a few adventures until their Wealth equals or exceeds the price, so they only suffer a reduction of 1 point.&nbsp; Also, they must spend 1 hour per Purchase DC per item to find them all.&nbsp; Your PCs could be searching for these magic items for weeks.&nbsp; Meanwhile, what's going on in the world around them?&nbsp; Try to lure them out of the &quot;shopping spree&quot; with an adventure hook-maybe even one directly related to their magic item shopping.&nbsp; d20 Modern is a game about adventures, not bargain-bin surfing.&nbsp; Try to remind them of that, but do allow them to get some FX items.&nbsp; How many depends on the level of magic in your game, of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="genshou, post: 2495453, member: 13164"] Remember that Wealth is an abstract concept-you can't really assign a value to the amount of actual "cash" a character has in their accounts. That said, though, it is certainly possible for characters to get ahold of these items with Wealth bonuses much lower than the Purchase DCs. But remember that they have to make a separate Wealth check for each, and if they can only succeed on a natural 20, that's a sizable decrease to their Wealth score. They'd be better off waiting a few adventures until their Wealth equals or exceeds the price, so they only suffer a reduction of 1 point. Also, they must spend 1 hour per Purchase DC per item to find them all. Your PCs could be searching for these magic items for weeks. Meanwhile, what's going on in the world around them? Try to lure them out of the "shopping spree" with an adventure hook-maybe even one directly related to their magic item shopping. d20 Modern is a game about adventures, not bargain-bin surfing. Try to remind them of that, but do allow them to get some FX items. How many depends on the level of magic in your game, of course :) [/QUOTE]

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