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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoboGod" data-source="post: 5670407" data-attributes="member: 90920">This is an interesting question. The correct answer is never give out more gold through any means that would put a PC above the character's wealth per level illustrated on page 135, table 5-1, of the Dungeon Master's Guide. But that's a boring answer for the DM never bold enough to inject a bit of chaos in their games.On one hand, the easiest way to break any game is to give your players excessive treasure. Even if you restrict what they can and cannot buy, the game falls apart because your PCs are rich beyond the value of their gold. All you get is a Legend of Zelda syndrome where your players find no value in their gold and leave it on the ground. Adventuring no longer becomes about the getting that last 200 gold you need to upgrade your sword before you consider what upgrades your armor needs, it becomes the chore you painfully understand will push the story along.On the other hand, giving your PCs surplus or (even unlimited wealth) can give a positive change the face of the game. New reasons to be adventurers may emerge. Rather than trying to get rich and powerful, your PCs become crusaders of the land that call them champions, your PCs develop their own nations, your PCs might even surprise you with something you never thought of. More than likely, however, this wont be the case and your PCs will be dullards that can't move past the linear "kill monster, take loot" phase. However, this becomes a MARVELOUS opportunity for you as a DM. Instead, you can initiate a new kind of currency, one that doesn't buy material possessions. (This is something I'm trying in my current game.) Your PCs start taking jobs that don't pay in gold, but something abstract that can't be bought. It can be anything you want! It can be an item to shape reality, stop time, create artifacts, foresee the future, open paths into strange new lands. Or it could be information, a forbidden lore, a bit of knowledge lost long ago, a piece of a puzzle to something greater. The limits to what DnD becomes when players aren't greed-driven actually becomes quite interesting.</blockquote>

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