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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1823732" data-attributes="member: 15651">First off, I always took the DMGs table of wealth as a guideline for the DM; that's why it is in the DMG.&nbsp; It is not a party tool to &quot;keep score&quot; with, it is a way to offer guidance to DMs as to how much or how little treasure to place within an adventure and maintain the authors' sense of game balance.&nbsp; If players in my campaigns started calculating their &quot;net worth&quot; and complaining about it being unfair, they might find the Mighty DM Lightning Bolt of Retribution (TM) zapping their whiny&nbsp; a<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />es.&nbsp; Fortunately we have not had the problem.The players treat money and magic as separate categories of treasure.&nbsp; Money is usually divided equally, and magic treasure is doled out based upon need, usefullness to a particular character, and desire.&nbsp; When more than one person wants the same thing, the party looks over what each person has, what they have received recently and makes a decision about who gets it.&nbsp; Sometimes it leads to some trading for other magic items, sometimes for cash (we had a rogue who really wanted to buy an expensive black market item - she gave up a chance at several magic items in exchange for some gems), and sometimes for future favors.&nbsp; The nice thing about the horsetrading that happens is that as a DM it gives me a nice subtle way to see if any one person has really been shortchanged in magic items.&nbsp; If I see that, I make a few adjustments to be sure that something that would be great for the shorted PC turns up soon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 1823732, member: 15651"] First off, I always took the DMGs table of wealth as a guideline for the DM; that's why it is in the DMG. It is not a party tool to "keep score" with, it is a way to offer guidance to DMs as to how much or how little treasure to place within an adventure and maintain the authors' sense of game balance. If players in my campaigns started calculating their "net worth" and complaining about it being unfair, they might find the Mighty DM Lightning Bolt of Retribution (TM) zapping their whiny a:) :)es. Fortunately we have not had the problem. The players treat money and magic as separate categories of treasure. Money is usually divided equally, and magic treasure is doled out based upon need, usefullness to a particular character, and desire. When more than one person wants the same thing, the party looks over what each person has, what they have received recently and makes a decision about who gets it. Sometimes it leads to some trading for other magic items, sometimes for cash (we had a rogue who really wanted to buy an expensive black market item - she gave up a chance at several magic items in exchange for some gems), and sometimes for future favors. The nice thing about the horsetrading that happens is that as a DM it gives me a nice subtle way to see if any one person has really been shortchanged in magic items. If I see that, I make a few adjustments to be sure that something that would be great for the shorted PC turns up soon. [/QUOTE]

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