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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5555416" data-attributes="member: 3424">Arguably, the latter is not actually a problem with the wealth by level guidelines. You would face the same problem any time you destroyed the characters' equipment. What wealth by level would do is to give you an indication that the party might not be up to taking on equal-level challenges and that the DM might want to adjust the challenge level accordingly. Of course, an experienced DM would do that automatically, without the need for wealth by level guidelines, but an inexperienced DM might find the advice useful. The former is a little trickier. The wealth by level guidelines do contribute to the problem in that it is assumed that a new high-level character would be appropriately equipped. This addresses certain issues, e.g. the new character can function at the expected level of effectiveness without requiring him to be someone that can make use of all the old character's equipment. The issue then becomes one of how to dispose of the old character's equipment. I recall advice in an old DMG (possibly the 1E DMG, so it isn't a new issue, either) that the equipment could be claimed by the old character's heirs. In any case, I suggest that the DM be upfront about it, and he can even use the wealth by level guidelines to argue that he is not taking the old character's equipment away from the party arbitrarily or on a whim.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5555416, member: 3424"] Arguably, the latter is not actually a problem with the wealth by level guidelines. You would face the same problem any time you destroyed the characters' equipment. What wealth by level would do is to give you an indication that the party might not be up to taking on equal-level challenges and that the DM might want to adjust the challenge level accordingly. Of course, an experienced DM would do that automatically, without the need for wealth by level guidelines, but an inexperienced DM might find the advice useful. The former is a little trickier. The wealth by level guidelines do contribute to the problem in that it is assumed that a new high-level character would be appropriately equipped. This addresses certain issues, e.g. the new character can function at the expected level of effectiveness without requiring him to be someone that can make use of all the old character's equipment. The issue then becomes one of how to dispose of the old character's equipment. I recall advice in an old DMG (possibly the 1E DMG, so it isn't a new issue, either) that the equipment could be claimed by the old character's heirs. In any case, I suggest that the DM be upfront about it, and he can even use the wealth by level guidelines to argue that he is not taking the old character's equipment away from the party arbitrarily or on a whim. [/QUOTE]

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