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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3188133" data-attributes="member: 30001">Well, to each their own (an old fashioned way of saying YMMV), but consider:Maybe we can agree that DnD is a resource management game.  The way most people play it, equipment/resources are managed by the player.  Ie. you keep track of your gold, and when you buy things, you have less gold.  Contrast this to a kind of game where you basically assume that your 4th level fighter has whatever equipment a 4th level fighter would have, and the whole issue is abstracted.And once you start managing resources, it becomes a game of economy.  If I decide to sell my potion of invisibility for a pair of boots of elvenkind, that's an economic decision.  Further - NPCs are doing the buying and selling, and their perception of supply and demand (among other things) would be implicit in their decisions.  (Unless you're from the "because I say so" school of NPC motivation.)So saying DnD isn't a game of economy is like saying DnD isn't a political game, or an exploration game, and so on.  IMO DnD is all of those things, though the degree to which you develop those elements depends on your interests.And how is that different from a business man?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   In fact, the trading companies of the "Age of Exploration" probably each have higher body-counts than most 20th level characters.  As someone pointed out on this thread, economic activity in the game can be an adventure hook (the same way politics and curiosity can be hooks).It's no more impossible IMO than making sure that character classes or spells are balanced - which means that it's never going to be perfect but I would think "economic reasonableness" would be a nice quality to have in a game with an equipment price list.  The PCs make economic decisions when they buy a 15 gp longsword instead of a 300 gp dagger - so as with spells and such, why not make sure that the options before them make some sort of sense with regards to the campaign world?</blockquote>

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