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

[Crothian]

So, in tonights adventure I gave the group, all second level characters, about thirty thousnd gold pieces in gems. It is connected to a plot, it just wasn't out of nowhere. But I'm just curious how many people would do this? I'm not taking it away from them later, well not all of it. One of the gems is going to be made into a very powerful magical item for second level characters, and item worth 5 times as much as the gem was. The players are in a town they can spoend lots of it, they have time to special order some things and make some magical items themsevles. That's a lot of money to give to second level characters, so is that somethign you would have done?

 

[Jdvn1]

I try to avoid it. I had a game once where, as 12th level characters, we got about 3 million gold. It was pretty crazy and the GM regreted the mistake.

 

[Crothian]

well, 3 million at level 12 is a lot worse then 30k at level 2.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Hep Cat DMing

I gave the group, all second level characters, about thirty thousnd gold pieces in gems.

To paraphrase Maynard G. Krebs ...

"Crazy man ... crazy ...."

 

[Jdvn1]

well, 3 million at level 12 is a lot worse then 30k at level 2.

Possibly so, but it's a matter of degree than a difference of problem, I think.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

!!!

I try to avoid it. I had a game once where, as 12th level characters, we got about 3 million gold ...

 

[Jdvn1]

As part of a war, we had to exterminate a city of some evil race. We killed the bigger bad guys, the armies killed the resistance, and we took the spoils of the city.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Slip Me Some Skin Soul Brother

Like I said ....

"Crazy man ... crazy ...."

 

[Dougal DeKree]

30k gp? Sure, why not? I'd presume each member gets himself some stuff, so it means 6k gp for 5 players. With six thousand gp they can't go for anything killing the plot IMO. I'd rather guess that they each go for three magic items, two for 1k and one for 4k. But maybe that's just me.

Dougal

 

[wingsandsword]

In a magic item economy where money can be turned into direct character power, and the fact that some important spells are limited mainly available money, you have to be real careful with big piles of money landing in the PC's lap.

In a normal D&D game, I wouldn't do it because I know it could derail the game very quickly as the PC's suddenly have a huge jump in power. If they cooperated and just bought one big item, it could be pretty bad as the fighter becomes a killing machine, or the wizard gets a few really powerful wands that lets him lay waste to a dungeon (or small army) singlehandedly. If they lost a significant chunk of that to the plot item you mentioned, and they split it up, depending on how many PC's there are, each PC would only be getting a few thousand gold, which is enough for a +1 weapon or armor, or a nice wondrous item like +2 to a stat, or some really useful wands/potions/scrolls, it wouldn't wreck the game, but the PC's would be a little more powerful than standard.