Ancalagon
Dusty Dragon
Hello
I didn't use to think much of this before, but I've spent a fair bit of time GMing the warhammer system and now that I'm looking back at D&D I'm aghast by the amount of gold being tossed around in treasure and offered reward.
(this came up in the decimal gold system but I didn't want to derail the tread too much).
In D&D, A poor person makes about 2sp/day. A common sell sword 1-2 gp/day (if he's lucky). so 50 gp is a months' wage - several months if you are a peasant. Yet it's not uncommon for low level adventurers to find or be rewarded with thousands of gp.
Now warhammer is a big grimmer than D&D (and gold is just plain worth a bit more) but if the party was offered a months' wage for a dangerous mission, they would go for it, and be fairly happy with the reward. And if after the adventure when they made that money and twice that in loot they would celebrate... without crashing the local economy with too much gold incidentally.
Is it just me?
I didn't use to think much of this before, but I've spent a fair bit of time GMing the warhammer system and now that I'm looking back at D&D I'm aghast by the amount of gold being tossed around in treasure and offered reward.
(this came up in the decimal gold system but I didn't want to derail the tread too much).
In D&D, A poor person makes about 2sp/day. A common sell sword 1-2 gp/day (if he's lucky). so 50 gp is a months' wage - several months if you are a peasant. Yet it's not uncommon for low level adventurers to find or be rewarded with thousands of gp.
Now warhammer is a big grimmer than D&D (and gold is just plain worth a bit more) but if the party was offered a months' wage for a dangerous mission, they would go for it, and be fairly happy with the reward. And if after the adventure when they made that money and twice that in loot they would celebrate... without crashing the local economy with too much gold incidentally.
Is it just me?