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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8998291" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>Fundamentally I don't really see a real difference between those (the 1e and 3e models) as they serve the same function -- gold has to be put back into the character to advance in their functionality. That serves the goal of creating a defined purpose for the money acquired and also to keep the PCs hungry for the next big score (giving a solid answer to the question 'so why are we seeking treasure?'). The downsides are that 1) campaigns where you aren't accumulating treasure need workarounds (you can play <em>The Hobbit</em>, but not readily <em>The Lord of the Rings)</em>; and 2) it strongly disincentivizes the characters treating massive treasure payouts as, well, massive treasure payouts. The later is (to me) a greater issue, because about half the players want to play around with the RP aspects of being treasure hunters who suddenly find a massive treasure score (rather than putting it back into getting better at being treasure hunters). Someone going to want to play the Conan-type (every payday is followed by carousing until they wake up penniless in the gutter and need to go get another payday). Someone is going to want to keep upgrading the pack animals and then wagons until the party is riding around on an armored triple-sized vardo with full-service bar, arbalest gunnery turrets, lock&trapped strongbox, and team of full-plate barded warhorses pulling it. Someone is going to want to put tens of thousands of GP into refurbishing the abandoned iron mine that was the site of adventure #12 (which will eventually be complete and start putting out hundreds of gp worth of ore per month, paying off well past the point when the campaign ends). Those are the things my groups have done with BX/BECMI, 2e, 5e, but not 3e (and 1e only when level-training and name-level keep&army play was abandoned).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8998291, member: 6799660"] Fundamentally I don't really see a real difference between those (the 1e and 3e models) as they serve the same function -- gold has to be put back into the character to advance in their functionality. That serves the goal of creating a defined purpose for the money acquired and also to keep the PCs hungry for the next big score (giving a solid answer to the question 'so why are we seeking treasure?'). The downsides are that 1) campaigns where you aren't accumulating treasure need workarounds (you can play [I]The Hobbit[/I], but not readily [I]The Lord of the Rings)[/I]; and 2) it strongly disincentivizes the characters treating massive treasure payouts as, well, massive treasure payouts. The later is (to me) a greater issue, because about half the players want to play around with the RP aspects of being treasure hunters who suddenly find a massive treasure score (rather than putting it back into getting better at being treasure hunters). Someone going to want to play the Conan-type (every payday is followed by carousing until they wake up penniless in the gutter and need to go get another payday). Someone is going to want to keep upgrading the pack animals and then wagons until the party is riding around on an armored triple-sized vardo with full-service bar, arbalest gunnery turrets, lock&trapped strongbox, and team of full-plate barded warhorses pulling it. Someone is going to want to put tens of thousands of GP into refurbishing the abandoned iron mine that was the site of adventure #12 (which will eventually be complete and start putting out hundreds of gp worth of ore per month, paying off well past the point when the campaign ends). Those are the things my groups have done with BX/BECMI, 2e, 5e, but not 3e (and 1e only when level-training and name-level keep&army play was abandoned). [/QUOTE]
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