Cauldron Gold Limit

[Jovan Vasiljevic]

Supposedly, it's 3000 gp (in Dragon #97). Is that a mistake, since it seems kinda low for a large town with assets of 600 000gp, not to mention you can't buy almost anything useful past lvl 5 (not even +2 stat items!)? Is it the same in HC edition? Or if it's not, did any of you DMs correct this?

[Bill Dunn]

Jovan Vasiljevic wrote:

Supposedly, it's 3000 gp (in Dragon #97). Is that a mistake, since it seems kinda low for a large town with assets of 600 000gp, not to mention you can't buy almost anything useful past lvl 5 (not even +2 stat items!)? Is it the same in HC edition? Or if it's not, did any of you DMs correct this?

In the HC, it lists the GP limit as 15,000. Keep in mind that things can get imported from Sassarine and there's Skie's Treasury, both of which can be used to get around that 15,000 limit.

[walter mcwilliams]

Jovan Vasiljevic wrote:

Supposedly, it's 3000 gp (in Dragon #97). Is that a mistake, since it seems kinda low for a large town with assets of 600 000gp, not to mention you can't buy almost anything useful past lvl 5 (not even +2 stat items!)? Is it the same in HC edition? Or if it's not, did any of you DMs correct this?

When I ran my campaign one of the slaves rescued in the first chapter was the daughter of a merchant in Sasserine. She provided an interface, and a romantic intrest for one of the PC's. Worked really well!

[Acrimonious]

My notes show that the GP limit of the town is 3000gp but that you should raise it 1000gp each chapter so thats 2000+(1000*chapter#)gp

Skies shop value should be similarly raised each chapter but By 10k gp.
she starts at 50K gp

p.s. my notes may not be what the book says

[siege]

In my game, I decided not to raise the gold limit for the town because it just seems contrived to do so.

For Skie's, at the beginning of each chapter I randomly remove items from her inventory and add roll to add new stuff (the assumption being that other adventuring groups are affecting her stock).

Because this sort of ties my players' hands in terms of what they can run out and buy, they've started making requests to "commission custom items" from other casters in town. I let them do that with the consideration that the most powerful caster available to do such work is 7th level. That's enough for them to get their hands some minor and lesser items, but not much more.

If they *really* want custom stuff, I'm forcing them to make special arrangements with an importer so they can "order" items from Sasserine. It'll cost 150% of the DMG price to do so, but they can have whatever they can afford, and more importantly, it forces them to role-play out the situation. If they can RP their way into a better deal, I let it happen.

[delvesdeep]

If you are concerned about your characters out growing Cauldron you can either ignore the gold limit or direct them to Sasserine.

If you are interested in looking into Skies Treasury and or Sasserine I wrote up fairly substantial documents on both you can find on www.theRPGenius.com.

Delvesdeep

[Jovan Vasiljevic]

Actually, I'm more concerned on how will I, as a player, get my hands on some more expensive items. :D

[Bill Dunn]

Jovan Vasiljevic wrote:

Actually, I'm more concerned on how will I, as a player, get my hands on some more expensive items. :D

Contact the importers in town Maavu Arlintal and Ankhin Taskerhill, I believe, both import stuff from Sasserine. Taskerhill might be more of an art importer, I'm not sure. (I don't have the book handy.)

[Acrimonious]

Jovan Vasiljevic wrote:

Actually, I'm more concerned on how will I, as a player, get my hands on some more expensive items. :D

As a Player you should not be searching the internet for answers to your problems, that should be done in game with your GM. You are cheating yourself, the GM, and the rest of the group by coming here and reading this board. This board is filled with spoilers that you are better off finding out in game.