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<blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4263143" data-attributes="member: 47190">I don't understand the motivation behind any of this.Clearly the prices and money is balanced to keep players within the power curve as regards to gear and magic, while still giving them a goal to shoot for.This... economy thing... seems to me not centered on what the players want or need at all, but simply a self-centered project to satisfy the DM's sense of imaginary aesthetics.Seriously, if what's important to you in a fantasy game is to look at the economy, of all things, and nod your head in satisfaction at the inner workings of it all... play railroad tycoon or something. First, a one-player game; you don't need to mess up other player's game experiences to satisfy your own need for... for not having to imagine adventurers talking about 'millions of dollars', I guess? God forbid <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Second, a game that was designed to deal with economics in the first place... D&amp;D is as far into the wrong place for that as you can get. IMO not only did the designers not try to fix these supposed 'problems', they actually and deliberately embraced them and spotlighted them as the anchorstone of D&amp;D. Which is how it should be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harr, post: 4263143, member: 47190"] I don't understand the motivation behind any of this. Clearly the prices and money is balanced to keep players within the power curve as regards to gear and magic, while still giving them a goal to shoot for. This... economy thing... seems to me not centered on what the players want or need at all, but simply a self-centered project to satisfy the DM's sense of imaginary aesthetics. Seriously, if what's important to you in a fantasy game is to look at the economy, of all things, and nod your head in satisfaction at the inner workings of it all... play railroad tycoon or something. First, a one-player game; you don't need to mess up other player's game experiences to satisfy your own need for... for not having to imagine adventurers talking about 'millions of dollars', I guess? God forbid :p Second, a game that was designed to deal with economics in the first place... D&D is as far into the wrong place for that as you can get. IMO not only did the designers not try to fix these supposed 'problems', they actually and deliberately embraced them and spotlighted them as the anchorstone of D&D. Which is how it should be. [/QUOTE]

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