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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 8864164" data-attributes="member: 2303">These are not uses for gold. They are penalties for lacking gold. Gold is not a reward in this case, it is a necessity, and if the DM fails to provide it the game stalls. Which is also the case in all Gold as Xp systems where you can spend money to increase character power. It looks like a reward, but if you don't get it your power curve sags. This is really, really tricky. You want the PCs to covet gold but to do so you got to give the players incentive to get gold for their characters. Seriously, I think Conan does this best. Gold is a mcguffin that motivates PCs, but between adventures it is all spent carousing. You play with open cards, telling the players that gold is something their characters want but that it is useless to them as players.Of course, there are many motivations besides gold in RPGs and I prefer motivations such as personal goals, loyalty, advance in an organization and such, but for dungeon crawling gold is indeed quite a central concept.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 8864164, member: 2303"] These are not uses for gold. They are penalties for lacking gold. Gold is not a reward in this case, it is a necessity, and if the DM fails to provide it the game stalls. Which is also the case in all Gold as Xp systems where you can spend money to increase character power. It looks like a reward, but if you don't get it your power curve sags. This is really, really tricky. You want the PCs to covet gold but to do so you got to give the players incentive to get gold for their characters. Seriously, I think Conan does this best. Gold is a mcguffin that motivates PCs, but between adventures it is all spent carousing. You play with open cards, telling the players that gold is something their characters want but that it is useless to them as players. Of course, there are many motivations besides gold in RPGs and I prefer motivations such as personal goals, loyalty, advance in an organization and such, but for dungeon crawling gold is indeed quite a central concept. [/QUOTE]

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