So what's gold gonna be for?

[Treebore]

As an aside, I remember looking on a character sheet of one of my high-level characters in 2E, and realizing that I had almost 100,000 gp just sitting in a bag of holding. To this day I still think of Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money vault whenever I think of gold and bags of holding. Is that weird?

Wierd?

Nope. Thats the whole reason my PC's have a Portable Hole full of gold. Now if only they can figure out the "gold diving" feat.

 

[Treebore]

Lanefan killed Treebore's verisimilitude and took its stuff. *sigh* I'm sorry. I had to. You may all hate me now.

OK.

 

[Gloombunny]

Perhaps we'll see a silver standard with gold and platinum being rare?

Oh man, that would be sweet.

Anyway, yeah. Ale and whores.

 

[Treebore]

My concern about removing the "christmas tree" is that its been blended/added into the character class builds.

Looking at Book of 9 Swords/Tome of Battle I think I may definitely be concerned about something real.

 

[Gloombunny]

My concern about removing the "christmas tree" is that its been blended/added into the character class builds.

Huh? What do you mean by that?

 

[Rechan]

Obviously thats when the DM institutes "training under fire" rules, and has them level up as they get the appropriate XP's.

Training rules assume "down time". So obviously if you don't give the PC's the downtime the training rules need to go out the window.

So you have normal training rules, then you have "training under fire" rules.

Or obviously, you make training optional for those who want it.

 

[RPG_Tweaker]

Perhaps we'll see a silver standard with gold and platinum being rare?

Oh, I hope so... hell, I wouldn't mind it going down to a copper standard for food and lodging, silver for arms and armor, gold for city intrigues and land purchase, and platnum for dealing with nobles and purchasing castles.

 

[frankthedm]

Um... maybe PCs will actually be able to afford to build and maintain a stronghold again?

That's one thing I missed from 1E.

Yep, that would rule. especially if 4e gets rid a lot of those annoying spell comboes that make strongholds pretty much undefendable.

Collect gold
Build stronghold
Attract followers
Cultivate your very own point of light.
Plot hooks come to you.

A really good way to make gold useful is to have it be slight more magic resistant than lead. Thus the more gold you pour into your stronghold's walls, the more resistant to scry and teleport.

 

[SpiderMonkey]

Yep, that would rule. especially if 4e gets rid a lot of those annoying spell comboes that make strongholds pretty much undefendable.

Collect gold
Build stronghold
Attract followers
Cultivate your very own point of light.
Plot hooks come to you.

Awesome.

 

[Greg K]

Perhaps we'll see a silver standard with gold and platinum being rare?

One could only hope. That is exactly the type of thing that I hope to see by continuing to look at the 4e teasers and other bits tossed to us- little things worth stealing despite my overall negative impression of 4e and the current WOTC inhouse design team (from a design and not a personal perspective as I am sure they are all good people).