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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Big BZ" data-source="post: 7333230" data-attributes="member: 6872504">I have to say that before the Downtime UA I barely wrote down the gold we accumulated as frankly it was pretty irrelevant but since the UA and the Xanathar's my experience has changed completely.  I spend my gold on researching elements of my back story, looking for plot clues, buying magic items etc.  I absolutely love downtime.  Now I know, as was discussed earlier in the thread, the metaplot imperative of the hardback books leaves very little room for downtime but do the proponents of the Magic Shoppe not see a conflict between wanting to play those adventures exactly as published and being unhappy with the game exactly as published?  To be honest some of the metaplots have been pretty stupid in my opinion, the breaking of the Ordning, Realms wide deathcurse etc.  If your problem is with the lack of downtime, hack the published adventures.Granted I have no skin in the game because this is how my group plays but I have no problem with other people wanting Magic Shoppes or even getting them.  On the otherhand I understand why Wizards they don't do it given balance, maths etc etc</blockquote>