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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8164828" data-attributes="member: 12731">First off, there's nothing wrong with going on a good rant! Get it out your system! <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, no... Pathfinder 2 - very much unlike 5th edition - expects heroes to amass magic items.If you're inclined towards minmaxing or even survival you will have a hard time justifying a new house or a thieves guild if you could instead spend your money on +1 to attacks or saves, for instance.In 5th edition it works much better to have players genuinely interested in downtime, and purchasing "downtime stuff" (like building their own wizard's tower). Pathfinder 2 is much more "hardcore" in that the rules say exactly nothing about what wizard towers cost, and say a lot about what Flaming Swords and Bracers of Armor cost.I'm not saying you're playing the game badwrongfun if you don't focus on magic items for your money. I am however saying that my players do, and I am also saying I can't blame them - not in the context of playing PF2 where every little +1 is a cherished reward that can be the difference between life and death... So on the question "can rewards be a single currency" my answer is a definite no. That doesn't mean it has to be for you, but it does mean I can't use suggestions that assume players will skip the next level of potency rune just to play a morally gray character. I hope you can respect that <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For the purposes of my campaign I will definitely not ask the players to abstain from magic items just to characterize their PCs. Luckily, that aspect of the problem is trivial to solve - just have two currencies, that could be called blue money and red money if all that needed solving was this specific issue. Thing is, it isn't. I really hope I don't have to specify "red money" amounts that make sense both at level 1, 10 and 20... (At level 1 everything works since I can just award money that makes sense compared to purchasing plate armor or a pig or whatever. But at level 10 I really can't see the cop heroes being millionaries - and still working as cops!) It would be sooo much easier and more to the point to utilize abstract wealth levels.I just wish more of you would say you see the tradeoffs and compromises, instead of saying it doesn't sound like fun... since I can't really see a good workable alternative...</blockquote>

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