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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2389668" data-attributes="member: 1125">Excellent points and exactly what I'd do. Bugbears especially as the tend to be primitive and tribal probably don't measure wealth in gold coins but in food and weapons.IMC Gnoll culture is based on Hunting and wealth means having excess meat from successful hunts (which relies on having enough whelps, followers and fertile lands). I don't see Bugbears as being much different so the next time the PCs go into the dungeon reward them with racks of dried/salted meat, some meat cleavers, the skull of a buffalo and if your in a generous mood maybe some hides worked into leatherIn my current setting I have a cashless economy and have adapted D20 Modern's Wealth system (and called it Influence) which measures the amount of influence a character has over others and their ability to call in favours (like say asking the village spear maker for the sacred Harpoon of Fish Summoning +2I also like promissory notes - the Ancient Egyptians use to issue such notes to those depositing grain in the royal silo's (it allowed a person holding the note to access grain from any of the royal silo's at a future date)Anyway was watching Discovery Channel 'Ancient Egyptians' last night and the tale of two twin sisters who served as priestesses to the Apis Bull cult they were paid in tokens and a promissory noteit might be interesting for the PCs to find that the dungeons treasure consists of such tokens which can only be used by a priestess of a particular cult or a promissory note redeemable in a enemy country (or only by Bugbears)</blockquote>

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