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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9765203" data-attributes="member: 7045806">My question here is pretty simple. Is this a game design issue or a table issue?To me, and I might be cynical, you can't actually fix the issue you cite with game design. The game design you try to do would have to be heavy-handed. Heavy handed in a way that prescribes every reward, every merchant, every price. If you miss a single link in the chain, the house of cards collapses.This is because the DM largely decides cash flow, cash sinks, and, well cash everything. And you would need to remove the DM from every one of those decisions, every treasure placement, every reward, every little gold piece, in order to fix the economy. If you don't, it just takes one wrong price, one reward that's too high, one mistake by a human. And the entire system pulls a London bridge.If a table wishes money to matter, they can do that. But it requires full DM buy-in. Anything short of that, and you just have 30 pages of a book describing something in theory, that fails in practice, because humans make mistakes.And DMs are human. So I don't know if it's really feasible in practice.</blockquote>