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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6441178" data-attributes="member: 12731">And that is fine.For a level 4ish party.No wait, it isn't fine at all. Once my sorcerer amasses a thousand gold, I want something shinier to buy than "my share of the party plate mail I'm never gonna wear". I don't want to settle for just buying healing potions all my life. I want to hope for a cool wand, or a ring or something else with awesome properties.And if you say "but you'll find all that on your adventures!" you've missed the entire point. Finding things does not give my gold value. And it is the seemingly worthlessness of my gold that is the issue at hand here.And then when I get 5,000 gp...? And when I get 20,000 gp? What then? Mundane personal items do get eclipsed even in 5th ed.Just a sweeping statement along the lines of "a common-uncommon item costs 5K, while a ultra-infra-rare item costs 50K" doesn't cut it. For this traditional type of campaign.How do you put a rarity on an item the DM have created himself? Saying a specific rarity just to set the price band that you feel suits the item's power best feels very backwards. Tying rarity to price simply makes no sense. There are plenty of stuff that's mighty rare that still costs way less than a Toyota car, and while no car is exactly "common" even today, you would be a hundred times more likely to see this $20,000 item than the $1,000 novelty rare.ZPS. And of this completely ignores how the DMg contains rarities costed at 50,000 and 500,000 gp... so the sidetrack about PCs not getting their hands on loads of gold is probably nonsense in this edition too. Why would the DMG otherwise bother?(I'm basing this restart of the thread on Niko's "I have the DMG" thread, by the way. Thanks.)</blockquote>

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