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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2156860" data-attributes="member: 15651">Lobo Lurker has some good points.  You need to make sure the players characters fit into the economic situation.  If you let them have starting equipment by the standard numbers, then those that roll well are going to be from relatively wealthy families, or they will need other explainations as to how they got so much nice equipment when everyone else is struggling.  I would not have the tax collector chasing the PCs at the start.  After all the starting money is supposed to be an accumulation of wealth and equipment over the years before staring as a level 1 character.  As a result taxes should have been taken care of long ago.  If you are interested in working this aspect, I would recommend letting the PCs roll their starting money and then taking however much off the top as taxes paid over the years.  Then I would make the tax man an ongoing theme of the game as they accumulate new wealth.</blockquote>