Long story short, our band of adventurers has been treading through the lost city of Tsar and have come into a huge horde of gold. About 350k gold to buy items with.
We have a paladin (me), a staff magus, and an oracle/sorcerer mystic theurge. We all have primary weapons and armor as well as stat boosting headbands, as well as such things as a gem of trueseeing, instant fortress, portable hole, bags of holding.
What I am asking is...what would you buy with that much gold???
For the most part we are fighting undead, demons and the like...if that matters.
i would retire with a castle and a harem.
Fund a personal army? Legion of the undead, meet our legion of warriors!
Buy a scroll of Simulacrum, use it to craft a Simulacrum of an Efreeti. Infinite Wishes.
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A bigger instant fortress, constructed from other smaller instant fortresses.
Any of the following:
175,000 sheep
14,000 vials of holy water
Put Holy on every weapon you own
Several Sun Blades
A Holy Avenger
87 greater slaying arrows, mixed Undead and Evil Outsiders
Is it 350k total or each?
Use your share to help repair the city defences, fund some orphanages and soup kitchens and occasionally ride through the city throwing platinum blocks at beggars. As a Paladin your Deity will swoon over your unselfishness and give you some cool permanent stat bonuses while your GM rewards you for roleplaying your character!
Or just go to your Deities Temple, dump it on the collection plate and yell, 'Here's my lunch money for the next hundred years, lord!' Although that one is probably not going to get divine bonuses nor GM rewards...
Any of the following:
175,000 sheep
14,000 vials of holy water
Put Holy on every weapon you own
Several Sun Blades
A Holy Avenger
87 greater slaying arrows, mixed Undead and Evil Outsiders
I would have to over-rule you on the sheep one.
174725 Sheep... and a light catapult.
Any of the following:
175,000 sheep
14,000 vials of holy water
Put Holy on every weapon you own
Several Sun Blades
A Holy Avenger
87 greater slaying arrows, mixed Undead and Evil Outsiders
I would have to over-rule you on the sheep one.
174725 Sheep... and a light catapult.
174450 sheep and two catapults.
With that many sheep you should be able to find out what happens when they collide in mid air.
Sheep tennis.
Sheep tennis.
Seems like a lot of effort to teach them to play tennis while they wait to be launched.
Sheep tennis.Seems like a lot of effort to teach them to play tennis while they wait to be launched.
Maybe we could teach them Sheep Ping Pong instead. Better yet, use the Sheep and Ping Pong balls. Only problem, is that I don't think they bounce very well. I've never shot a sheep out of a catapult, so I can't tell you how well they bounce, unfortunately.
Sheep tennis.Seems like a lot of effort to teach them to play tennis while they wait to be launched.
~LAUGHTER~
The biggest question isn't "What are we going to do with all this gold?", it is "How long will it be before someoe tries to take it from us?". Hopefully you GM is nice.
*Especially* if the terrible trio is Lawful Good - and the players are itching for an RP session - I'd brainstorm with the other two players in between sessions to find a way to be an unselfish as possible with all or almost all of that money.
Secure a few expensive foci and costly material components (say, 25k gp or so total) then go nuts with JonGarrett's suggestion and thoroughly play up being a Paladin and two servants of Good.
Fund some repairs, import lots of food and clothing for the hungry and poor, heal the sick, cure the blind, deaf and diseased, have every low-level item crafter in the city making something for the destitute and orphaned, pay to have your version of Habitat for Humanity upgrade as much of the slums as you can into decent housing, Smite the slum lords if you have to, scoure the sewers of vermin and lycanthropes, fund your temple(s)/ arrange for small chapels to be erected [paid for in advance with trusted stewardships ensuring their completion even if the lot of you buy the farm], run with it and have fun!
I personally would be pretty generous in rewarding well-thought-out unselfish behavior by the entire group with this kind of a windfall being spent in such ways.
Throw a party, midevil style. Jousting tournement.
You broke the game - retire.
Seriously - with that kinda wealth the master have to send up the challenge rating of encounters or it's gonna be a cake walk...
But what would i buy?
Pearls of power, Ring of Wizardy for the magus.
Cha books to the MT
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May I suggest the plain and simple diamonds. Save it for resurrection and restoration, at least some of it. Take a share out for that before anything else. Then Cap your basic stat items and the basic protections (rings of protection, cloaks of resistance, amulet of natural armor). Oh and if you can swing it a scarab of protection, that will more than make up for its cost. As a side note what books are legal? There are a lot of good items in alternate books but it really depends on what is allowed.
I would use the gold to find the office that registers ownership of buildings...
I would then register all the buildings in the "found" city as belonging to me, then rent them out during the re-population phase.
350k gold - pah - pittance against the rent of a whole city - and I would obviously have the biggest house rent free :)
Currently, we have had to make trips back to town 4 times in order to get people "wished" back to life, as there has been no other way to recover them. (one time I was carrying a bag of holding and walked into a portable hole, another time the magus was sucked into a mirror of life trapping and I destroyed the painting thus causing the magus to be destroyed, then the magus also got sucked into another painting that was corrupted by Orcus and that required another wish to recover).
Basically I thought about buying a luckblade for the magus and myself, and a ring of wishes. That way, it would basically bail us out of a TPK and allow us to adventure, without breaking the item level/gold level/power level of our group. I know how powerful my paladin is when all we fight is undead and demons. The magus is very capable with his ring of wizardry 1 due to having shocking grasps out the wazoo! And the mystic theurge is underpowered currently, but is slowly gaining due to the HUGE number of spells per day he can cast. But even with 3 people, this module is incredibly deadly....but buying items to max our hp/ac/attacks would break the game and remove most of the challenge, and I would prefer not to do that...but still be able to get something cool/fun.
And yes, it was 350k gold total for the group of 3 to split, but we almost always have used the gold for party resources or shared.
More seriously, I would talk to the GM. If your characters are appropriately equipped for the campaign, I would seriously consider using the money for some plot element, or to do something cool.
The luckblade or ring of wishes is definitely cool too, and very useful, ultimate backup/last resort.
Long story short, our band of adventurers has been treading through the lost city of Tsar and have come into a huge horde of gold. About 350k gold to buy items with.
We have a paladin (me), a staff magus, and an oracle/sorcerer mystic theurge. We all have primary weapons and armor as well as stat boosting headbands, as well as such things as a gem of trueseeing, instant fortress, portable hole, bags of holding.
What I am asking is...what would you buy with that much gold???
For the most part we are fighting undead, demons and the like...if that matters.
Buy Assassin guild to kill the oracle/sorcerer/ MT cause your are level 14 and he is just now getting 5th level spell he is 2 whole spell behind.
Robes of Arcene Heiratge
Soothsayer's Raiment
Sliver Bracelet
Rods of Quicken, Reach
2 Tome of Leadership and Influence +5
1 Tome of Clear Thought +5
Last 2 item eat up most of you gold those 411K