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

[Bastoche]

We were given 30 000gp at level 3 in the form of a ring of invisibility (20k) It was unwanted in the sense that one NPC that we weren't supposed (able) to kill was slain in a clever trap we set him. The suprise and clever use of sneak attacks took care of him before he could ever activate the ring (it was a doppleganger). That's how we got the ring (and the only magic weapon I had until level 10: a +1 dagger). Since we weren't too powerful and dealing with NPCs beyong our skills we tended not to use it too much for fear of having it stolen so it was not a game breaker. Since then the "DM" owns us about 100,000 gp!!!

 

[painandgreed]

I could see myself doing that. If just to remove the monetary motivator and see what they actually want to do. Thing is that I don't think they could do much to unbalance the game with it. Buying magic items IMC would be an adventure in itself as they would have to probably pay off people to be introduced to the people who would make or sell such things. By time they traveled to the city where items could be purchased, paid for their lodgings (and most PCs like to go in style and probably would have to in order to impress those they're seeking to befriend), spread a little money around to get the proper appointments, deal with people who can provide such items and then probably pay more than suggested retail price for them, it would be an adventure arc all unto itself. It would flavor the campaign as they would begin to gain access and contacts they normally wouldn't get till several levels later but don't think it would disrupt the campaign. There there's that if the flashed too much money and it was kown they were low level, they would become targets for rogues and such. For that matter, how could it disrupt the campaign if the players and DM are having fun?

I did have something like this happen to me before. At a low level the Dm gave us a really powerful sword that he was sure that we would keep. However, due to what was supposed to be flavor plot where our small kingdom was taken over by barbarians and that we couldn't come up with a good way to split what the sword was worth among the party, the paladin demanded we sell the sword and use the huge amount of money (and somI minor magic items) to hire a merc army and free our kingdom, which we did. It threw the DM for a loop but he went with it and it all worked out. We freed our kingdom, received some minor noble titles and land with a small "haunted" keep that we had to go clear out whch became our base of operations.

 

[Umbran]

In the games I run, it'd be pretty pointless. If they tried to spend that much cash they'd get noticed. And they'd have a snowball's chance on the Plane of Fire of surviving the assualts from people tyring to take rob them.

 

[Arnwyn]

I never understodd what was so hard about preping for a game.

*shrug* For some, it's time-consuming. (Not "hard".)

 

[Crothian]

In the games I run, it'd be pretty pointless. If they tried to spend that much cash they'd get noticed. And they'd have a snowball's chance on the Plane of Fire of surviving the assualts from people tyring to take rob them.

They are being smart about it. They have not been spending much at alland have been overly frugal with it so far. They are having armor specially made for one of the guys, but its just master work so nothing to exotic there.

The one catch so far has been where and how they got it. The fought some tough goblins that were being supported bya human wizard. The wizard is obviously very talented with some of the spells he was using but he was not fighting as effectively as he could have. Once the goblins were killed he thanked the party for their service and tossed oput a bag of gems. he called it payment for tieing up the lose ends he was not able to tie up himself. The party though hasn't seemed to be that worried about it though.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

 

[Crothian]

Ya, least you could do is try to add to the thread instead of these lame attempts at humor......

 

[Gomez]

I wonder if the characters would go "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" on you if given the chance and start thinking about bumping off their fellows for a bigger share of the loot!

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Ya, least you could do is try to add to the thread instead of these lame attempts at humor......

My apologies good Sir .... I just think you are making a grevious mistake in handing over 30K in gp to a pack of mooks.

Still, it might not be that bad. The highest upgrade that your average 4-person party could achieve by this windfall is a +1 weapon and a few low-level items.

Admittedly, I have seen far worse things happen in-game.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

I wonder if the characters would go "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" on you if given the chance and start thinking about bumping off their fellows for a bigger share of the loot!

"DM ... we don't need no stinkin' DM!"

"Give us the 30,000 gp Gringo, and you won't get hurt ... much ...."​