One of the things that has always annoyed me about D&D is the amount of
money PCs have access to. Though there are some guidelines for this sort
of thing in 3e, even now 10th level PCs could be running around with
49,000gp worth of equipment. This becomes especially annoying when one
examines the amount of money that a realm can earn. The money carried
around by the aforementioned 10th level PC is more than the approximate
average 22GB (or 44,000gp) earned from severe taxation on a level 5
province for a full year.

In the past, I`ve fiddled around with raising the value of the GB so that
the prices of realm level things like troops and castles would be more in
line with the standard values of D&D equipment, but doesn`t it make just as
much sense to lower the standard D&D values so that the GB is actually
worth something at the adventure level? That is, if the prices of
equipment in 3e are reduced to 10% or so of the amounts listed then
suddenly a GB is a goodly amount of money and we don`t have PCs necessarily
weighted down with hundreds of pounds of gold, AND the GB values of various
domain effects will be sensible. So maybe the problem isn`t the GB but the
gp. At least, the amount of gp assumed to be the standard in 3e.

Comments?

Gary

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