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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5870324" data-attributes="member: 2067">It strikes me that the Tiers-As-Treasure idea posted about in another thread resolves this.Most normal folks are probably Zero Tier. You can rule a kingdom, or an empire, or whatever, without having to be someone special and destined. You can be a Level 1 Commoner (aka: not worthy of statting out) and just be lucky and maybe not a bad leader. Your wealth can't buy you anything above Zero Tier. Okay, you get crown jewels and silk tapestries and even a big statue of you, but you're not getting, say, a magic weapon (though you might be able to afford some healing potions, or some anti-poison salves, or some other consumable, low-level, common magic commodity). That's because you can't get a magic weapon without being at least, say, Heroic Tier. Magic weapons just aren't available for sale. They're only things that those folks sung about in taverns seem to find. Your wealth as king doesn't buy anything out of your Tier. Maybe if you're a particularly skilled and famous king, you can be a Hero, and then you get a magic sword that is famous as well. Oddly, this handles the Resurrection Problem, too. If Resurrection is a Champion or Epic tier spell, then normal kings -- even very famous kings -- can't just buy it. Things out of Zero Tier are not purchasable at shops or makable at forges by zero-tier folks. Alernately, though, they can be for higher-level folks. If you're a Heroic Tier Dwarf, and you wanna make a magic axe, you can. Or if your family heirloom sword is used by your Heroic Tier PC, it can be magical, even if when your weird uncle Filbert picks it up, he can't do anything with it. Man. This idea is fixin' problems left and right..</blockquote>

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