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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3688579" data-attributes="member: 1465">First, it's a GUIDELINE, so at least a DM shouldn't worry too much about following it exactly&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> That said, there could be 2 purposes for that guideline: creating characters at that level, or keeping control over character equipment during a campaign.Unfortunately the 2 purposes don't fit perfectly with each other, due to the presence of &quot;consumable&quot; magic items (potions, scrolls, wands...). If you create a PC using the wealth guideline, you pretty much spend all those money without bothering about what the PC might have had previously, and had used it up.But if you use the guidelines for &quot;monitoring&quot; PCs wealth in an ongoing campaign, you have to choose whether to &quot;forget&quot; about already-used consumable items, or still count them in the PC's current wealth. If you forget them, you favor characters who use lots of consumables. If you still count them, you favor those who don't use any, and you may even wonder if the two characters are still balanced with each other (the wiz who spent everything on wands and now is pennyless vs the fighter who only bought permanent items are certainly NOT on par!!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 3688579, member: 1465"] First, it's a GUIDELINE, so at least a DM shouldn't worry too much about following it exactly ;) That said, there could be 2 purposes for that guideline: creating characters at that level, or keeping control over character equipment during a campaign. Unfortunately the 2 purposes don't fit perfectly with each other, due to the presence of "consumable" magic items (potions, scrolls, wands...). If you create a PC using the wealth guideline, you pretty much spend all those money without bothering about what the PC might have had previously, and had used it up. But if you use the guidelines for "monitoring" PCs wealth in an ongoing campaign, you have to choose whether to "forget" about already-used consumable items, or still count them in the PC's current wealth. If you forget them, you favor characters who use lots of consumables. If you still count them, you favor those who don't use any, and you may even wonder if the two characters are still balanced with each other (the wiz who spent everything on wands and now is pennyless vs the fighter who only bought permanent items are certainly NOT on par!!). [/QUOTE]

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