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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7274127" data-attributes="member: 20323">Two quick points:1) Not all cultures would be so dog-eat-dog. Many agrarian villages probably had much more socialistic values. "It takes a village to raise a child" being a motto harkening back to before the Industrial Revolution. While I could entirely see the winnings be harshly taxed by their feudal lord (if you're using a feudal government), or attracting bandits, or maybe having one or two "bad apples"....I'd imagine that the villagers would mostly cooperate to distribute the wealth where it needs to go – fixing Tomvald's barn so the animals don't get disease from wet-foot, buying sleds for each family to help bring their goods to market, building a proper inn for merchants/the visiting lord/visiting adventurers, and so forth. 1200 gp could easily be spent on infrastructure & buildings.2) Being a peasant doesn't mean someone can't be financially savvy. My great grandmother was a shepherdess when she came to America in an arranged marriage, and she became a real estate investor just using her natural talents. It might be fun to imagine what one enterprising NPC could do with 100 gp or so...maybe invent a new kind of plough (drawing upon real world history for inspiration)? Or a gnomish tinker who makes the village the fireworks center of the principality/kingdom?</blockquote>