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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9584374" data-attributes="member: 5889">I will challenge this a bit.1) Time: If the DM has established a setting with long downtimes...then suddenly changing it to "oh there is no time for that" when the players start to craft things doesn't really work.2) Money: Its true that the DM can be super stingy...but this starts to go against a setting if its done to an extreme. When every attempt to pickpocket turns up empty, and even dragons don't have hoards anymore....the players start to question what is going on.Further, as this OP was based on a module....what does the module assume as treasure? The DM may just be following the treasures rules the module already established.One thing that is often overlooked in discussions. While it is true that DMs can always do anything and change anything, many Dms do like to be thematic. They establish a world, and would like consistency within that world. And so the DMs hands become "thematically tied" in many ways. This is why the "you can always throw in another dragon" doesn't always work in these kinds of settings. In a white room, sure a DM can throw anything they want against a party. But in a setting you are trying to make believable.....it doesn't always work to just add monster X to an encounter. Likewise above, you can't establish a world that has dungeons and ancient relics and xyz but then have the PCs come up short on cash every time they go out adventuring.</blockquote>

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