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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6854537" data-attributes="member: 22424">How do you feel about Batman? Because he's in a similar position - he'd do much more good for the world if he gave up his vigilante crusade and instead dedicated himself full time to philanthropy. Heck, if the Wayne Foundation is indeed funded from the profits of Wayne Enterprises (as in TDKR) he'd do more good just by dedicating himself to maximising profit.Actually, those guidelines already exist in 5e, they're just hidden.The "Wealth by Level" tables in the 3e DMG were widely misinterpreted - they weren't a guideline to how much treasure the DM should give out, but were rather the average results if you used the expected 13.3 encounters per level coupled with the random treasure tables in the same book. What the 3e DMG didn't say (and should have done) is that the DM was free to ignore those guidelines, which would obviously lead to a different result.The 5e DMG also has an expected number of encounters per level (though it's rather more complex than 3e's 13.3 per level) and also has a set of random treasure tables. So someone who was sufficiently motivated could work through the numbers and hack out a set of "Wealth by Level" tables for the edition in just the same way that Cook, Tweet, or Williams did for 3e. (I would, but I'm in agreement with you that the game is better off without.)</blockquote>