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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 1634806" data-attributes="member: 5143">Hehe, the last time I ran a long, involved campaign, this DID start being a problem after a while.  It was a deadly dungeon crawl and we were having close to 1 death per session.  Each time, the party looted the body and I let them come back at a level lower with 1 level lower gold.Eventually, the party was too rich.  But one of the party members was possessed by an evil spirit.  The party managed to get themselved locked up and all of the party's equipment confiscated.  They would have gotten it back after a day in jail, but the possessed guy managed to avoid getting put in jail.  He broke in, stole all their stuff and attempted to run off with it.  However, the spirit didn't know everything about their equipment.  He just saw they had a portable hole, so figured he could store everything in it.  One of the players said "He's making off with ALL our stuff?"  I said "Yep."  He said "How is he carrying it all?".  "The portable hole."  "Oh, so he even took the two bags of holding?"  "Oops..."Thus, that was the end of all the equipment of the group, just as they were beginning to have WAY too much money due to character deaths.  I can't count on that happening again.  This time, I think I'm going to have it be a law or something that looting the dead of their possessions is wrong, except when using them to pay for their own raise dead.Majoru Oakheart</blockquote>

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