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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BVB" data-source="post: 939915" data-attributes="member: 12155">I think it's delightful that the entire group decided to quit together and settle down to run the same store. To be of one mind about a major life decision like that? -- Wow. But while the "well-oiled machine" can be a lovely construct to behold, I also believe it is an over-simplification of a RPG sitiuation that can take years to develop. As the new players/characters in the group, there's really no reason why we would automatically assume a party fund is a good, fair thing. It's not as though the group is a married couple with a single joint checking account, after all -- "Honey, did you pay the electric bill this month? ... I'd like to buy a wand of lightning bolts; can we afford that?"A well-oiled machine can refer to a team of real people who have learned to work together and trust one another through hard times, or it can be a cheaply defined computer game simulation wherein they are treated as a single animated character operated by six joysticks.</blockquote>