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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4221840" data-attributes="member: 8863">Doesn't look too bad.  Only glanced over the XP tables.  They change every edition anyway.  And I'd already moved past by the book XP rewards in 3e, since the "level x 1000 XP to level up" formula in 3e was very easy to work with.  I'd give something 250 or 500 x level XP if the party did something significant and 50-100 x level XP for smaller stuff.  There were no individual XP rewards for defeating enemies, since that's the thing that threw 3e XP balance totally out of whack for me in the first place. The treasure parcels seem a bit like some things I was doing in my games, sometimes add just add up all the encounters and then distribute the total around the dungeon where I saw fit.  Usually that meant the lion's share with a "boss" or some other major monster, withh the rest hidden in the floors or wall, or in chests and the like.  The real problem with 3e treasure was the assumption that random tables would always equal a certain average amount in the long run, and that PCs would always have a certain amount of wealth, particularly in magic items to balance things out.  I never went entirely by the book with 3e treasure anyway, so it didn't really matter to me.  I also hope the rules for the DM include guidelines on how to set up custom parcels.  I wouldn't want to be tied into using the same parcels for every single adventure I run. Partially this is because they include fixed gp amounts, that just feels too predictable, and I'd rather something more random.  But then just looking at the parcels it shouldn't be too hard to set up, just stick in 4 magic items 1-4 levels higher than the party, then divide the total gp amount among 6 other parcels.  And my games have been moving past sacks and piles of coins as well and using trade goods instead, so I could just go in and replace some of that with say bolts of exotic fabric, rare spices, ingots of precious metals, and so on rather easily.The section on commerce doesn't sound much different than what we already have in the game.  It's just simply reiterating that you can find the basic stuff you need in villages, but need a big city for the more off the wall stuff.The magic item economy sounds pretty good.  Character can make items of their own level or lower, no problem there.  They need to buy or find items that are higher level, and higher level items should be out of their means most of the time, or possibly can't even be bought, depending on how thhe DM wants things.  The disenchantment process sounds like a good way to get rid of items if buying and selling is out of the question.  It also looks like it could make an effective method for the party paladin to destroy evil artifacts in a way that benefits the party as well.  Random markups aren't a bad idea either, if the DM and players want to go through the trouble of playing that stuff out.</blockquote>

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