Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 32621" data-attributes="member: 1149">Re: revamp[/B]</blockquote>Without arguing the presumption, this would indeed be a CAMPAIGN rule.I am heainr two different things being talked about... ONE is dividing loot. The other is calculating a characters WEALTH for either a campaign specific reason or for comparison to the average ealth table.AFAIK, when calculating wealth for PC BALANCE issues all magic items are figured at their WHOLE value (adjusting for charges where apropos.) In some cases a 30% discount applies to items made by the character.FOR normal campaigns (not with hundreds of players and DMs)AFAIK, whether the PCs use half shares or full shares for magic items in DIVIDING LOOT or whether they use any other means is up to them. I do know from experience that results with the dividing loot by counting magic items against the share of the money doen't work well all that often. Results such as having 5 characters, about 5k in monies/loot, a +2 sword and some scrolls to be divided means the fighter in order to &quot;buy&quot; the sword to use needs to chip in sp,e exorbitant amount of cash which he may or may not have, Yo &quot;properly&quot; divide this loot the sword must be sold and split. Since the proceeds wont be enough to buy a +2 sword, the net result is a party with evenly split gold and maybe a +1 weapon instead of a +2 weapon. In the long run, trading in items of the higher power for divisible cash REDUCES the party's power and net wealth.Again, IMX.I have seen parties do this. Have seen my own party sell&nbsp; off +2 weapons because &quot;they are not the right kind&quot; and felt absolutely no sympathy when a month later their +1 weapons had problems&nbsp; with +2/ DR.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Petrosian, post: 32621, member: 1149"] [b]Re: revamp[/b] [/B][/QUOTE] Without arguing the presumption, this would indeed be a CAMPAIGN rule. I am heainr two different things being talked about... ONE is dividing loot. The other is calculating a characters WEALTH for either a campaign specific reason or for comparison to the average ealth table. AFAIK, when calculating wealth for PC BALANCE issues all magic items are figured at their WHOLE value (adjusting for charges where apropos.) In some cases a 30% discount applies to items made by the character. FOR normal campaigns (not with hundreds of players and DMs) AFAIK, whether the PCs use half shares or full shares for magic items in DIVIDING LOOT or whether they use any other means is up to them. I do know from experience that results with the dividing loot by counting magic items against the share of the money doen't work well all that often. Results such as having 5 characters, about 5k in monies/loot, a +2 sword and some scrolls to be divided means the fighter in order to "buy" the sword to use needs to chip in sp,e exorbitant amount of cash which he may or may not have, Yo "properly" divide this loot the sword must be sold and split. Since the proceeds wont be enough to buy a +2 sword, the net result is a party with evenly split gold and maybe a +1 weapon instead of a +2 weapon. In the long run, trading in items of the higher power for divisible cash REDUCES the party's power and net wealth. Again, IMX. I have seen parties do this. Have seen my own party sell off +2 weapons because "they are not the right kind" and felt absolutely no sympathy when a month later their +1 weapons had problems with +2/ DR. [/QUOTE]

Verification