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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9328933" data-attributes="member: 29398">Depends on how many entries there are in the table and-or what the odds are of hitting each one.If your 1-20 table has exactly 20 different entries in it then sure, you'll hit each one fairly quickly and fairly often.&nbsp; But if you look at something like the 1e DMG and work out the odds of hitting a Holy Avenger, you'll find those odds to be a whole lot less than 1 in 20; low enough that never rolling one in your life is a valid possibility.Keep in mind also that in most item tables the odds of hitting an individual minor piece e.g. a Potion of Climbing or a +1 Longsword are considerably higher than those of hitting something really big in the same table e.g. a Potion of Dragon Control or a Holy Avenger.I was never a fan of wealth-by-level when 3e introduced it and I remain not a fan today. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9328933, member: 29398"] Depends on how many entries there are in the table and-or what the odds are of hitting each one. If your 1-20 table has exactly 20 different entries in it then sure, you'll hit each one fairly quickly and fairly often. But if you look at something like the 1e DMG and work out the odds of hitting a Holy Avenger, you'll find those odds to be a whole lot less than 1 in 20; low enough that never rolling one in your life is a valid possibility. Keep in mind also that in most item tables the odds of hitting an individual minor piece e.g. a Potion of Climbing or a +1 Longsword are considerably higher than those of hitting something really big in the same table e.g. a Potion of Dragon Control or a Holy Avenger. I was never a fan of wealth-by-level when 3e introduced it and I remain not a fan today. :) [/QUOTE]

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