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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 4873199" data-attributes="member: 79945">So to summarize - if you add up the total wealth an adventurer will get throughout their career based on treasure packets, the DMG higher-level awards are roughly 2/3 of that except at level 2-4, where the DMG is substantially ahead (> 20%).  Such a large discount seems reasonable because adventurers playing through the levels will spend a lot of their wealth on items which will be replaced later.Here's the actual percent difference between the DMG and 2/3 of the treasure packets:[sblock=Numbers]Level 1: 0.00%Level 2: 70.27%Level 3: 49.65%Level 4: 27.91%Level 5: 17.16%Level 6: 12.70%Level 7: 15.56%Level 8: 8.61%Level 9: -4.93%Level 10: -6.30%Level 11: -3.72%Level 12: 4.61%Level 13: 0.40%Level 14: -11.50%Level 15: -10.99%Level 16: -7.01%Level 17: 2.42%Level 18: -1.24%Level 19: -12.82%Level 20: -11.93%Level 21: -7.66%Level 22: 1.98%Level 23: -1.57%Level 24: -13.08%Level 25: -12.12%Level 26: -7.80%Level 27: 1.89%Level 28: 2.55%Level 29: 0.27%Level 30: -7.41%[/sblock]I'd also guess that at levels 2 to 4, the effect of obsolete items is much less because there hasn't been time to replace anything.Based on this, I'd say to either:Award 66% of the time gold all the way through, and low-level characters get shafted a bit (which isn't as big of a deal since there's a lot of variance at those levels anyway, and it's less hardship to throw away a level 1-4 char than to retire and replace a level 8 or 9 char that you've got a lot more invested in)Award full time gold (maybe with a -10% to discourage character swapping) for new characters at levels 2-4, and just use the DMG numbers thereafter.</blockquote>

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