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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8258518" data-attributes="member: 29398">Please forgive my committing the unspeakable faux-pas of replying to myself, as I see I didn't finish a sentence earlier and thus the point wasn't made at all....determined by random roll and then reversed each time through (thus 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1-1-2-etc.) until nobody wanted anything else; anything left over was sold and the proceeds shared out.  Anyone could draft anything provided it was still on the board.Sounds fair enough in theory, right?What happened in practice was one character in particular, being very greedy (though played by a non-greedy IRL player), drafted for estimated value* rather than function; she generally guessed right, and then privately sold off most of what she'd picked and made an absolute fortune.  By the time the party concluded, three or four adventures later, that this was a bad means of treasury division, that one character's net worth was about equal to the rest of the party combined!Never again.* - because they were dividing it by draft there was no real need to get the items evaluated, so we got to skip that step.</blockquote>