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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8586138" data-attributes="member: 22779">As far as gold goes, the pendulum swings back and forth.In 1e, gold was VERY important since that was the primary way to gain XP.  To the point where probably somwhere in the neighbourhood of 75% of your character's XP was from gold and and another 10-15% from magic items.  Your "kill" xp was basically just icing on the top.2e got rid of gold for xp and then gave the party nothing to do with gold.  You couldn't buy magic items - at least that was pretty strongly argued against in the system and there as pretty much nothing to spend gold on.  So, DM's simply stopped awarding much treasure.  There just wasn't any point after a few thousand gp.  There is a STARK difference in the treasure you get from a 2e module and a 1e module.  Not so much in the magic item department, but gp?  Yeah, there just wasn't any use for it in most campaigns.3e swung it back the other way.  A primary element of your character was the wealth by level table.  This was a HUGE design element - basically everything in the game centered around that from class design to encounter design.4e then swung it back the other way.  There really wasn't a whole lot of point of money - you weren't supposed to buy magic items again by and large and because magic item bonuses were tied to level, you could drop the whole thing out the window and use inherent bonuses.  Gold was largely pointless.5e has then pretty much doubled down on that.  Gold has virtually nothing to do with your character.  You don't buy magic items.  Gold is largely superfluous unless you use a lot of down time activities.I mean, my players just recently brought it to my attention that we're playing a 7th level campaign (Candlekeep Mysteries) and the six PC party has a less than 10000 gp total.  And considerably less.  In 1e, every single PC would have that much coin or more.</blockquote>

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