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<blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2488933" data-attributes="member: 9646">Yes... and no.As I have expressed several times on these boards, I hate the D&amp;D economics system, which looks totally idiotic to me. The problem, IMO, is not to find a bunch of gems worth 30,000 GP. The problem, IMO, is that it generally tends to miraculously turn (at the end of the adventure) into a weighless small pouch of 30,000 gp that doesn't attract anybody's attention. That's what irks me (a lot).So, if it fits the story and happens only occasionally, I can give an amount of gems valued at 30,000 gp to the PCs. No problem. The problems, for the PCs, just come in once they have got the gems in their pockets. To whom are they going to sell the gems? Nowhere else than in a big city, to begin with. Then, potential buyers may not have 30,000 gp immediately at their disposal, and even if it is the case, they would need a good reason to buy the gems; I mean: a merchant must first believe to have potential customers for those gems, which may be seldom the case in a setting with even an only superficially realistic economy. Then, 30,000 gp are heavy to carry around, and rumors of that wealth are likely to slip into nearby criminal ears. I would have a net of informants working for a thieves' guild to alert of unusually high business deals involving 10,000 or more gp.(Disclaimer: I didn't read the three pages of thread, so don' know if anyone else already said something similar to my comment.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Turanil, post: 2488933, member: 9646"] Yes... and no. As I have expressed several times on these boards, I [I]hate[/I] the D&D economics system, which looks totally idiotic to me. The problem, IMO, is not to find a bunch of gems worth 30,000 GP. The problem, IMO, is that it generally tends to miraculously turn (at the end of the adventure) into a weighless small pouch of 30,000 gp that doesn't attract anybody's attention. That's what irks me (a lot). So, if it fits the story and happens only occasionally, I can give an amount of gems valued at 30,000 gp to the PCs. No problem. The problems, for the PCs, just come in once they have got the gems in their pockets. To whom are they going to sell the gems? Nowhere else than in a big city, to begin with. Then, potential buyers may not have 30,000 gp immediately at their disposal, and even if it is the case, they would need a good reason to buy the gems; I mean: a merchant must first believe to have potential customers for those gems, which may be seldom the case in a setting with even an only superficially realistic economy. Then, 30,000 gp are heavy to carry around, and rumors of that wealth are likely to slip into nearby criminal ears. I would have a net of informants working for a thieves' guild to alert of unusually high business deals involving 10,000 or more gp. [COLOR=Gray](Disclaimer: I didn't read the three pages of thread, so don' know if anyone else already said something similar to my comment.)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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