Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5510798" data-attributes="member: 82106">Honestly the first thing that comes to my mind is that is pretty darn close to what the actual system does. PCs up into the top of heroic tier and maybe in some circumstances a bit into paragon can interact with the coin economy (say in a large city for early paragon). Mostly they will use their cash for a few big ticket items/expenses and a little that is left for more mundane stuff. The higher level treasure and items just launch off into their own practically separate economy where, as you say, a high level item might be traded for a castle or a title or something. Once you get on up into high paragon and epic the items are all vanishingly rare, probably unique in the normal world, and treasure is enough to buy any specific mundane thing. Still, the villagers won't EVER sell you their village, for any money, it is all they have and all they know. You might have the cash to buy it 10k times but so what? Even small things the same way, there are only 10 trail rations to be bought in Buckville. No amount of gold will change that.If the system was flatter and started from a higher point you could get all magic out of any relation to mundane stuff, but bigger treasures would still be pretty absurdly huge.As for 'selling on the black market quick' I'd say getting 20% is a pretty good abstraction... (when a player objects I let them go and do better, which is another adventure and nets more new treasure, which is then fluffed as what they got for the item, but is actually all/part of the next parcel). Of course it is fun to either totally impoverish or lard with gold some group now and then. Either condition being easily solved. What 4e's steep slope does though is erase mistakes quickly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5510798, member: 82106"] Honestly the first thing that comes to my mind is that is pretty darn close to what the actual system does. PCs up into the top of heroic tier and maybe in some circumstances a bit into paragon can interact with the coin economy (say in a large city for early paragon). Mostly they will use their cash for a few big ticket items/expenses and a little that is left for more mundane stuff. The higher level treasure and items just launch off into their own practically separate economy where, as you say, a high level item might be traded for a castle or a title or something. Once you get on up into high paragon and epic the items are all vanishingly rare, probably unique in the normal world, and treasure is enough to buy any specific mundane thing. Still, the villagers won't EVER sell you their village, for any money, it is all they have and all they know. You might have the cash to buy it 10k times but so what? Even small things the same way, there are only 10 trail rations to be bought in Buckville. No amount of gold will change that. If the system was flatter and started from a higher point you could get all magic out of any relation to mundane stuff, but bigger treasures would still be pretty absurdly huge. As for 'selling on the black market quick' I'd say getting 20% is a pretty good abstraction... (when a player objects I let them go and do better, which is another adventure and nets more new treasure, which is then fluffed as what they got for the item, but is actually all/part of the next parcel). Of course it is fun to either totally impoverish or lard with gold some group now and then. Either condition being easily solved. What 4e's steep slope does though is erase mistakes quickly. [/QUOTE]

Verification