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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8258387" data-attributes="member: 29398">When they get an item evaluated I tell them its value.  Once they've got all the values for their treasury (magic and non-magic) plus their coin, they just add it all up and divide to give each character's cash-value share.  Knowing this, characters then claim magic items from the treasury (competing claims for the same item are usually settled by simple roll-off) and get cash to make up the rest - or pay in cash if they claim more than their share.I'm the opposite: I very much dislike situations where treasure isn't divided up equitably by value, as I've seen too many situations where this wasn't done and things got unbalanced (to put it nicely) in a hurry; be it through greedy characters in the game, greedy players at the table, or both.And if this means a really nice item has to be sold, so be it.  As DM sometimes I prefer it that way; for example if a module gives some spectacularly powerful and expensive item that helps with the module but that I'd really rather not have in the campaign any longer than that, their having to sell it after the adventure because they can't afford to keep it is just fine by me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, other options with a stupendous item are 1) to carry it forward as a party-owned possession (i.e. everyone has equal-value shares in the item, and everyone's here-and-now share is reduced) and then if someone wants to he-she can later buy out the other shares piecemeal as funds allow; or 2) for a character to borrow money - usually from another character - in order to afford the item.The main problem with option 1) is if the party doesn't stick together, as is common in our games with characters coming and going from multiple parties, sorting out those shares later - and-or sorting out who gets to keep/use the item in the meantime - can be a right pain.</blockquote>

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