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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3187399" data-attributes="member: 29252">Because when they rebalanced the game, they had some amount of equipment in mind.  It mostly prevents monsters of appropriet CR from rolling over when the party hits them because the DM has no eye for balance, while mostly preventing monsters of appropriet CR from rolling over the party when it hits them because the DM had no eye for balance.  Wealth-by-level guidelines give an imperfect measure of the power of stuff, but it gives something measureable to check against a chart.  A DM who's not so grand with eyeing the effect equipment has on how difficult a given monster will be to take down now has something reasonably useful to look at to say it's in range of about right.  As a side-effect, too little equipment for the level means that a critter that would otherwise be CR appropriet may very well roll over the party, and so the players expect to have something in the neighborhood of that level of equipment.  A DM can change wealth levels, readily enough - but does so at his party's peril; you need a particularly good eye for judging power levels first.Does that make sense?</blockquote>