Do your PCs spend money on non adventureing things?

[Aeric]

My swashbuckler used to spend all his reward money on ale and whores, but he quickly fell behind the power curve of the rest of the party. I miss the days when magic items weren't so easily accessible, leaving PCs with large sums of cash and nothing to do with it but invest in businesses, build keeps, etc.

 

[3d6]

My players are adventurers. They spend money on adventuring.

 

[hong]

I don't bother to track food, ammunition or clothing.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

My group always seems to be buying new clothes. Adventuring has a way of making nice clothes not so nice in a very short period of time. Spending money on buying more than the basic food and drink is also a common occurance. At the same time I don't punish the PC's for doing it. They usually end up around the average wealth level in the end.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Once he has enough money, my gnome illusionist/bard/paragon will be sinking his cash into a townhouse in the gnomish neighborhood of Ptolus, once he can find one with a back door into the Dungeon. (And no, he's not particularly wise, why do you ask?)

 

[Agamemnon]

My characters have always spent their money on objects outside their "job". It stands to reason they would want to do something else with their lives besides facing death every day. After all, if you dig ditches all day, would you spend all your pay on buying a better shovel?

 

[Shemeska]

I had a PC in one of my games drop close to 50k on buying a present to pacify a fiend that they'd cheesed off and wanted to get back in the good graces of. Eventually said fiend showed up to the wedding of another PC and drunkenly hit on the first PC I mentioned. Obnoxious but powerful NPCs are amusing.

But what PCs will spend their money on is even more amusing. A short campaign just ended the other day that I was a player in, and the following was said after the conclusion: "There's just something to be said when we're saved by a fake mustache and pink buttless chaps." Yes, at some point the PCs purchased (several pairs of) pink buttless chaps. Nobody asks too questions about that, nor do they bother searching under them when searching a ship.

 

[dpmcalister]

Before Sarbreenar was forced to close by WotC, my character in that was spending thousands on a mansion he had, fitting it out with the appropriate, expensive, furniture, etc. He also spent a lot of money on his wardrobe (he was a foppish, noble type character who owned ten sets of, extremely well-made, outfits). I see it as helping to round out the character.

 

[blargney the second]

I bought a DMG2 business for my 8th level character. That 10k gp could have done a lot of other stuff, but it fit the personality...

 

[Firedancer]

An emphatic "yes".

My characters always spend gold on things outside of the adventuring necessities. Clothes, lodging, quality horses for breeding stock, land, manor house, church lands, charitable foundations, even wedding presents, whatever is appropriate to the character.

My fellow players do this as well, although its a rough, rounded cost rather than calculated to the exact silver or gp.

I've even been known to place a 10% equipment upkeep cost on another group who didn't spend on living costs.