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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1225818" data-attributes="member: 11581">You know, I ran a poll on this awhile back, after encountering TOEE NPCs, and their talk of "shares" of the treasure, and the general looting....and realized that, to me, this was an entirely alien concept which I'd never encountered before in any actual play.To me, the idea that "treasure" was divided into "shares" was simply an alien concept, as it makes basically no sense for a group of soldiers on a battlefield to, after a battle, round up all of the enemies guns, ammo, and hand grenades, and then divide them up as if they were some sort of commodity to be possessed, seemingly with no regard to who could CARRY it, and whether those bullets went with those rifles, or that the person who got a rifle should therefore not receive a hand grenade....none of that made any sense to me, considering my background. I've been a mercenary. At NO point did we EVER go and round up all of the enemies dropped equipment, personal effects, and cigarettes, and actually sit down and divide it up as if it was some sort of snack bowl.I've always been used to the concept that treasure is distributed across the party in order of who can best use it, followed by the order of who can best carry it: The idea that a strength 8 wizard gets the same amount of gold as a strength 18 fighter is absurd, given the difference in relative carrying capacity. And to call this "shares"? Isn't the idea of sharing completely undermined by declaring ownership on items? It's not SHARING anymore if you declare the item your exclusive property, now is it?And having been through maybe a half-dozen different groups, all of whom saw it this way, I came to wonder....what in the world are they talking about? So I ran a poll, and was surprised to see that while my method of treasure division was common, it was not, by any means, a dominant method.However, I've still never played in a group where the idea was even proposed. Even after I took up video games.....nobody in our Diablo group ever sat around arguing over who would get the loot. An item was grabbed by whoever could pick it up, if deemed interesting and not immediately usable, it was shown to the rest of the group, and if nobody felt it was useful, it was sold by person who grabbed it, who then pocketted the change. If anyone felt they needed the cash, they simply asked for it. This pattern has repeated itself dozens of times across many different settings, games, and groups....I've never been in a group which actually tried to divide up the treasure in any sort of way. But yet some people have. I wonder what kind of backgrounds these people have which induces this form of behavior.</blockquote>

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