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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6978848" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Has anyone else noticed that noticed that exactly the same people that have an issue withencounter balance 5E are the same ones that are experiencing this problem with gold?Without wanting to borrow too much from GNS theory, they seem to be the same guys that put the G in the theory.They adventure to get gold so they can buy equipment to adventure better to get more gold to buy better equipment. My characters tend to have goals other than 'adventure better'. Money gets them closer to those goals. Purchasing land and titles, your own private army, your own Church in town were you become the high priest, Assassins at your beck and call, a network of Spies, your own wizard on permanent retainer, donations to large churches to have you resurrected or raised in an emergency.Plus of course a life of luxury. If your character doesn't want a life of luxury, I really want to know why. I can't recall meeting too many people in the real world that don't want this. Ascetics maybe. Of course those guys would be donating the gold anyway.In the real world, with money comes power, luxury and freedom. Why are your games so dramatically different?From where I sit the problem is invariably a problem with your campaign. You've created a static game world where the whole point of adventuring is adventuring more. If your players can't translate those gold pieces into an additional +1 on the character sheet somewhere, to them gold is pointless. In other words, you have made gold meaningless outside of this pointless recursive cycle.Ask your players what their characters want. Why they got into this adventuring caper in the first place. Was their village destroyed by barbarian Raiders and they're out for revenge? Are they an exiled noble seeking to reclaim lost lands stolen by an evil relative? Are they just a bunch of mercenaries who want a life of luxury? Are they devoted to spreading the cause of a particular God? Are they just trying to provide for their family?They should be spending their money, or at least a sizeable portion of it, on that.</blockquote>

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