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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goobermunch" data-source="post: 1278251" data-attributes="member: 10516">Of course, the relative levels of penniless are quite different today than they were in the Middle Ages.Technology was responsible for a massive redistribution of labor.  The mill helped turn farmers into bankers.Clearly it didn't.  However, it did address many of them.  When was the last time you had a bad case of cow pox?  Small pox?  Polio?  When was the last time you had ricket or scurvy?  When was the last time a group of viking raiders swept through your town, burning, looting, and pillaging?The point is not that every adventure involves the Ark of the Covenant.  Not every D&D game involves a quest to recover an artifact.  The point is that those memes are available to draw upon and are supported by the system.I mean really, are the hand, eye, and head of vecna really worth all the trouble to track down?  Why should I go looking for the Rod of Seven Parts!  I can just make magic items that duplicate some of their abilities on a smaller scale.It might be better to think of it in terms of the Maltese falcon.  The Maltese Falcon was valuable, it was unique, but it wasn't powerful.Thus, the PCs could find themselves hired to head of to the recently rediscovered Lost City of Xixichulbzatl to recover a few samples of pre-dynastic collapse Xixichubzatlian pottery.  Maybe they pots they're looking for are tools for an evil arcane ritual . . . or maybe their employer is a lazy archeologist.--G</blockquote>

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