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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3279915" data-attributes="member: 4937">First of all, there is not one king or emporer in my home brew so well equiped as that.Second of all, those high end items aren't available to purchase even to kings.  Assuming someone could be found to make that sort of thing, the King would pretty much have to go hat in hand to the maker and beg a boon of them - one that they would pretty much be loath to give unless the king offered something more than money in return.  High level wizards and artifacers generally have better things to do with their time than wait on kings, and a lord which gained a reputation as one who was hard on wizards would soon find himself without much magical aid at all.Thirdly, it would be a foolish lord who so tempted villains by loading down his heir with all that valuable loot.  Assuming his heir to be as you say children beginning thier career, a youth of low level loaded down with gear like that might represent the richest pickings in the multiverse.  Step right up, kill the 3rd level fighter and walk away with 1 million g.p. of irreplacable and rare magical items.  Be the envy of every blackgaurd on the planet with your shiny new vorpal sword +5 acquired at very low low cost and risk!  Why bother risking your neck making a try at the seasoned 20th level paladin, when you can buy all the items on your wish list discount!Fourthly, what a young lord really needs more than anything else is an escape button - something you've neglected to provide him with.Fifthly, it would be a very foolish lord who threatened his own rule by burdening the populace with taxes in order to obtain such an ostentacious personal treasure - and one which could so easily be lost, stolen, or destroyed at that.  Sixthly, I'm not so sure that the wealth with which an heir could spend on his personal kit would be that much greater than a starting PC.  For one thing, the starting PC's have a good deal of personal wealth to begin with - much more than an average peasant could ever amass at one time so its a good bet they are some minor lords third son, the child of some lower upperclass merchant, or otherwise have lucked into what ammounts to a considerable treasure to begin thier career with.  For another, a noble's heir could not liquify all his assets and then convert them to a portable kit.  Whatever he was wearing would represent only a fraction of his total assets.  So I'd guess that an heir's kit might be 10 or even 100 times what a starting PC might possess (depending on the importance of position), but not nearly so extravagent as you suggest.Seventhly, I'm not sure I ever give this much thought.  Important princes and princesses just don't go wandering around my world waiting to get killed by someone.</blockquote>

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