Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haffrung Helleyes" data-source="post: 3830556" data-attributes="member: 1068">wealth and magicIn 3E, its virtually pointlist from a wargaming perspective to spend your money on anything but magic items.  And so we end up with the 'christmas tree effect' -- the adventurer loaded up with thousands of GP in  gear who doesn't own a home.But if you get rid of the ability to buy magic items, you lose a lot of versimillitude -- something so generally useful, in a realistic world, will generally be part of the economy.What about this:  instead of changing magic items, change the rules so that mundane things (temples, homes, castles) have an in-combat effect.For example, what if being the high priest/founder of a temple confers extra spells to a cleric?What if having a wizard's sanctum or laboratory helps a wizard in a similar way?  Like in Ars Magica, for example.I would make social skills like Diplomacy heavily influenceable by gold spent to benefit the local area.  I suppose that, to make this work, you need a reputation mechanic.Just a thought.Ken</blockquote>