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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheGogmagog" data-source="post: 2529583" data-attributes="member: 27702">I saw your post and found it interesting that a group with no equpiment is only considered 2 levels lower.  Considering my experience in low equipment campaigns I would agree with that.The DMG (P42) suggests the character wealth required to "be an effective character".  It also suggests that no one item should be more than 50% of thier suggested wealth for a new character.  It also suggests 20% variance would require adjustment, again for determining wealth of incoming characters.  It makes no mention of what equipment new characters have to chosse from.  Are scrolls of vile darkness availble, are boots of elven kind available?Though these percentages are for bringing in new characters, I think that it's fair to use them as a measure of magic availability.  Since there is little in the game that's non magical and more than 2,000gp, a character wealth in excess of 6,000 becomes pointless in a campaing where magic items don't exist or are equal to artefact value (ie. no price/cant be bought).  Ok, you can buy/build a castle and such but that isn't likely to affect how effective your character is.I think item availability significantly changes how effective your character is.   The sorcerer with a +5 flaming ghost touch dagger he found, is going to be less effective than if he can trade it in for a ring of wizardry II.  The question now is, what is the character wealth expect to be distributed with, selected items or randomly generated items?</blockquote>

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