When PC's want more than just money...

[Oryan77]

Whatever happened to the good old days when player's would jump at the chance to take on a mission which offered large sums of gold or gems as the reward?

I don't remember the last time an NPC had offered "a hundred diamonds" or "5k in gold" as a reward. It seems like players always haggle now and refuse the money and demand high powered magic items or want some special power granted to them....even at low levels!

Or maybe it's always been like this and I just watch too many movies

 

[Kanegrundar]

I don't know, but I'm sure someone's going to blame 30/3.5.

Kane

 

[Crothian]

You get paid for missions?!?! We just get roped into agreeing to do things for free.

I imagine this varies groupo to group, I've never had a group that was not willing to do things for the gold.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Huh. My general impression has been the opposite. With the ability to craft custom magic items and the level/wealth guidelines, it seems to me players have been more cash-obsessed than in prior years. In the good ol' days, they had no basis for comparison, and relatively few cash sinks, so once they hit a certain level, they didn't really care about money anymore, unless they were building a keep. Now they obsess over where they stand relative to where they think they should, and look at cash as a means of acquiring specific magic items instead of making do with what they find.

Impressions are of course subjective, yada yada.

 

[National Acrobat]

Are you kidding? As a player, and a DM, the old "It's the right thing, and the good thing to do" tend to be the reasons anything gets done at all.

Also, since starting 3E when it came out, I still have yet to have any players (I've run 3 campaigns, with 8 players) who have taken the item creation feats.

*bangs head on wall*

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

The two dwarves in one of my games have started what they refer to as "Dwarf, Inc." They make certain to do the dirty work of asknig for money upfront so the cleric doesn't have to feel sullied by commercialism.

 

[VirgilCaine]

The two dwarves in one of my games have started what they refer to as "Dwarf, Inc." They make certain to do the dirty work of asknig for money upfront so the cleric doesn't have to feel sullied by commercialism.

Now that's sad. Nowhere does it say that Good characters can't politely ask for some form of compensation to continue helping others.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Now that's sad. Nowhere does it say that Good characters can't politely ask for some form of compensation to continue helping others.

And yet that same cleric thinks nothing of gambling in the Inn to make a quick gold coin....

 

[Aust Diamondew]

In one of my games the PCs were essentially mercenaries and unless there was a personal reason (or they were doing a favor) for doing a mission they almost always expected payment of a large sum of gold.