Would you give your 2nd level party 30 thousand gold?

[Crothian]

Because they choke in the playoffs?

then maybe you should buy the refs!!

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Good Point

ya, a party of now third level characters against a CR 11 challenge....TPK or everyone gaining about a level....

True enough, but it's not any more radical than giving them 30,000 sovereigns.

 

[Crothian]

True enough, but it's not any more radical than giving them 30,000 sovereigns.

Ya, it is. Actually its a lot worse since they will end up dead unless the DMs saves them.

 

[Frater]

Hey guys, my first post. I also play in Crothian's game and I have enjoyed this thread immensely.

Should they be concerned? Ya, I think they should./ Are they? WEll, not quite yet but they haven't had it long.

LOL - I totally forgot about the gems. The mage and the priest have been hiding them and hoarding them and all I got was this stupid banded mail t-shirt.

That would happen if the show it off and make it public knowledge, and I'm pleased to say they are smarter then that.

Again LOL - as I said. I forgot about the gems I had kind of assumed they had all been spent. I will be speaking with Bresden about this...

And in addition - Maur Kaj is a warrior not a friggin business man or trader. No way in hell am I gonna spend money on a wagon and go buy some trade goods to sell in some other city. That takes too much forethought.

 

[Frater]

Hey! I just noticed that you get some of your NPC names from the boards here.

Arnwyn, I am sorry to say that you died horribly at the hands of Giants last night but you fought bravely with your borrowed sword and armor.

 

[Kristivas]

I've given the party an assload of cash without meaning to.

They met a real butt hole of a noble and decided to rob him after he gloated over the spoils which he took from the towns people in heavy taxes. Well, they find out he's going to be away so they sneak into his manor and find the vault. During this, the captain of the Baron's guard comes in. He's quite a few levels higher, so I was pretty much going to have him beat them into submission and toss them out onto the street naked.

Well, the fighter gets up and charges him.. rolled a 20, then another 20 (I learned my lesson about instant death crits). The caster hits the guy with a few magic missles and the rogue moves for position. Well, the big bad captain of the guard swings twice at the fighter.. rolled a 2 and 6.. whoosh whoosh.

I'll be damned if the fighter didn't crit again next round, while the rogue tore into the guy for some good ole' sneak attack. Another magic missle and the captain was horse meat.

So, the rogue rolled really well on his search and open locks, and found the treasure. After all that, I wasn't going to cheat them out of it.

There was talk of giving the money back to the townsfolk, til the guards were seeking out anyone found with the Baron's treasure for murder.. then they just skipped town and spent the cash in a big city. It wasn't too much, though. Roughly 23k and they were all level 3.

 

[Wiggus_Ironhand]

If I had a DM who did this to me, I'd take a good long look at that DM and try to decide if the game he's runnng is fun enough to put up with getting screwed over by him (because that's basically what I see him doing). I mean, don't give me something you don't want me to have, otherwise you're just yanking my chain to make me dance to some evil tune in your head.

Man i had a Dm do just that. We had fought in the town arena and we bet on us and the odds were like 60to1 that we would win. We pulled out the win and got the money in the end it was like 68,000 apice we took it back to our strong hold and put it in the safe and it was gone in under one night. I have never been so pissed in my life at my Dm.

 

[Agback]

That's a lot of money to give to second level characters, so is that somethign you would have done?

It's something I would have done. In fact something that I once did do.

The game I was using didn't have levels, and for that matter equipment was not as important as it is in D&D either. But at the end of a bit of a quest and a significant story arc a party ended up killing a very nasty dragon and acquired 550 cubic metres (720 cubic yards) of treasure--gold, silver, gemstones, and objets de virtu. They obviously couldn't ever sort through it all, so they just stuffed it into the basement of their castle and broke out a tonne or two whenever they needed it. Took to ballasting their boats with gold bricks in case they ever needed ready cash.

In a later adventure, they came up with a really clever plan to deal with a very powerful enemy if they could only get hold of a particularly legendary items. So they launched into a frenzy of research and managed to trace it into their own hoard. And there, they realised, they would never be able to find it, so they had to come up with another plan.

Later on they got involved in a civil war, and strategic exigencies forced them to abandon their castle. The enemy army looted it and spontaneously dissolved, each soldier (and officer!) deserting with all the money he could carry. The PCs were not significantly the poorer for this even, once they won the war and recovered their castle.

It was funny. But I don't think I would do it again.

 

[IronWolf]

Hey guys, my first post. I also play in Crothian's game and I have enjoyed this thread immensely.

And another one joins us!

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Verisimilitude Maintained

I've given the party an assload of cash without meaning to.

At least it was because they defeated a significantly difficult opponent (i.e., the baron's champion).