Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunders
Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs Of The Year
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
d20 Modern Encounter Wealth Bonus Awards
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Prince Atom" data-source="post: 6071260" data-attributes="member: 6046"><p>All right, I've seen all kinds of questions about how do you work the Wealth system, why not just a cash amount, what happens when characters sell stuff, how do you work Wealth bonus for single encounters, etc.</p><p></p><p>I can't find the answer to my question, which is:</p><p></p><p>On pg. 204 of the d20 Modern Core Rulebook, under Wealth Bonuses for Adventuring Gains, it says:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>OK. So this sounds like I should take all the hazards and creatures and obstacles from my series of encounters, total their CRs up, and divide by the number of hazards, etc. to get an average.</p><p></p><p>Then I calculate an EL using Table 7-6 on the next page, and then cut the EL in half.</p><p></p><p>I've run into a problem. I've got three encounters. The first has three CR 5 opponents, for an EL 8 (bonus +11). The next has got a CR 4 and seven CR 2s, for an EL 8 (bonus +11). The last has a CR 8, three CR 4s, and a CR 3, for an EL 9 encounter (Wealth +12). I want to give the reward at the end of this third encounter, in the form of a wall safe spilling over with cash.</p><p></p><p>When I take 5+5+5+4+7(2)+8+3(4)+3, I get a total of 56, which averages out (divide by 16) to 3.5. I drop the fraction, and then add 6 because there are (way) more than 6 hazards, so I get EL 9. When I cut that in half, I get EL 4, for a Wealth bonus award of +7.</p><p></p><p>+7 is way less than if I had every encounter carry briefcases full of twenties! If I gave rewards out for individual encounters, the party would split a bonus of +34!</p><p></p><p>What am I doing wrong? I think I'm dividing the wrong thing by 2, or I'm supposed to be adding more than +6 after averaging the CRs.</p><p></p><p>I used to do it by counting the individual encounter EL as a CR because of a misreading in the steps on how to calculate EL. Using this (wrong) system, for the encounters above, I'd get 8 +8 +9 = 25 /3 = 8 +3 = 11 /2 = 6, for Wealth +9.</p><p></p><p>I sure hope you can help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prince Atom, post: 6071260, member: 6046"] All right, I've seen all kinds of questions about how do you work the Wealth system, why not just a cash amount, what happens when characters sell stuff, how do you work Wealth bonus for single encounters, etc. I can't find the answer to my question, which is: On pg. 204 of the d20 Modern Core Rulebook, under Wealth Bonuses for Adventuring Gains, it says: OK. So this sounds like I should take all the hazards and creatures and obstacles from my series of encounters, total their CRs up, and divide by the number of hazards, etc. to get an average. Then I calculate an EL using Table 7-6 on the next page, and then cut the EL in half. I've run into a problem. I've got three encounters. The first has three CR 5 opponents, for an EL 8 (bonus +11). The next has got a CR 4 and seven CR 2s, for an EL 8 (bonus +11). The last has a CR 8, three CR 4s, and a CR 3, for an EL 9 encounter (Wealth +12). I want to give the reward at the end of this third encounter, in the form of a wall safe spilling over with cash. When I take 5+5+5+4+7(2)+8+3(4)+3, I get a total of 56, which averages out (divide by 16) to 3.5. I drop the fraction, and then add 6 because there are (way) more than 6 hazards, so I get EL 9. When I cut that in half, I get EL 4, for a Wealth bonus award of +7. +7 is way less than if I had every encounter carry briefcases full of twenties! If I gave rewards out for individual encounters, the party would split a bonus of +34! What am I doing wrong? I think I'm dividing the wrong thing by 2, or I'm supposed to be adding more than +6 after averaging the CRs. I used to do it by counting the individual encounter EL as a CR because of a misreading in the steps on how to calculate EL. Using this (wrong) system, for the encounters above, I'd get 8 +8 +9 = 25 /3 = 8 +3 = 11 /2 = 6, for Wealth +9. I sure hope you can help! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
d20 Modern Encounter Wealth Bonus Awards
Top
