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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7256410" data-attributes="member: 12731">Unfortunately WotC has completely dropped the ball here. They pretend magic items are &quot;optional&quot; and/or &quot;rare&quot; - in reality official modules are chock full of magic items.The official guidelines for treasure hoards give out tens and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces, yet there are nothing to spend it on that doesn't require downtime (building castles etc). However, official modules often ask the player characters to save the world and &quot;please hurry&quot;. This means no or little downtime is allowed or encouraged.There is a huge mismatch here, that is perhaps the biggest systemic flaw with 5th edition. Google &quot;D&amp;D gold is worthless&quot; and you'll see.Of course there are - and so far WotC has completely gotten away with doing nothing in this area and offering no solutions. This is our fault as players - until we speak up, they don't need to give us any working solutions or make their own adventures match what their rules actually support. However, many players are still in complete denial and will not even acknowledge the existence of this problem!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7256410, member: 12731"] Unfortunately WotC has completely dropped the ball here. They pretend magic items are "optional" and/or "rare" - in reality official modules are chock full of magic items. The official guidelines for treasure hoards give out tens and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces, yet there are nothing to spend it on that doesn't require downtime (building castles etc). However, official modules often ask the player characters to save the world and "please hurry". This means no or little downtime is allowed or encouraged. There is a huge mismatch here, that is perhaps the biggest systemic flaw with 5th edition. Google "D&D gold is worthless" and you'll see. Of course there are - and so far WotC has completely gotten away with doing [I][U]nothing[/U][/I] in this area and offering [I][U]no[/U][/I] solutions. This is our fault as players - until we speak up, they don't need to give us any working solutions or make their own adventures match what their rules actually support. However, many players are still in complete denial and will not even acknowledge the existence of this problem! [/QUOTE]

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