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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skelso" data-source="post: 4015819" data-attributes="member: 54189">I'd like to do that for you, but there are a couple of problems.  The first one is that the formula would use a "∑" and so you couldn't just plug numbers into it and use a standard calculator to figure it out.  There are high-end calculators and computer software out there that could run that formula for you, but if you don't already own any of that, I doubt it would be worth it to you.The second problem is that by the time my formula got you to the 100+ levels it would be so far from where real PCs would actually be had they leveled up to there on their own that you might as well pull numbers from the air.I could probably try to research and write a log function that would more closely approximate the given wealth table (which by the way almost certainly contains typos in addition to being mathematically unsound), but I think I'd be pulling out old college textbooks to remind me how to do that.Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.  Make yourself a line chart.  I recommend a big sheet of grid paper.  One of those three foot tall jobs with one inch squares on it that are good for drawing dungeons on.  Number along the bottom from level 1 to level 200 (or wherever you're going) and make sure they are evenly spaced, not bunched together anywhere.  Along the right side, number from 1000gp up to about 2 trillion gold (that's where I'd roughly estimate a 200th level character would be.)  Then start graphing and connecting the dots.  I wouldn't use my table, just graph from 1 to 40, then estimate a continuing curve on to wherever you're going.  That would be about as accurate as anything else we could do.</blockquote>

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