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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6556673" data-attributes="member: 19675">...and occasionally, your players might surprise you with an unexpected use for it.For instance, using it as a hiding place when being pursued; as an improvised bridge (especially between rooftops); as a weapon (like a plank) by expanding it at head height, clotheslining someone running down a narrow path.Spend time on a guitar board, especially one frequented by metalheads.  Newbies are always asking about guitar purchases.  Despite what more experienced guitarists are telling them, many are intent on buying gear that will provide only a marginal improvement- if any- in their tone...usually because that is all they can afford.  Telling them to save up more money before making a purchase often goes unneeded.Their burning goal is to be the next Alexi Laiho.  They're working 2 jobs & eating ramen for weeks so they can buy marginally better gear than they own, and they can't see that buying cheap gear NOW over and over delays their ability to get professional gear later.   This is a daily occurrence.So a PC buying a 2000gp sword when he has 2000gp and 10cp is perfectly believable to me.  Especially a PC in his late teens to early 20s, new to adventuring.  You ARE talking about well-rounded people with normal expectations outside of combat, as opposed to murderhobos or extreme obsessives (see newbie metalhead guitarists, above).</blockquote>