A thought about scenarios

[Dave Setty]

So I was looking through a few things in the good ol' Core Rulebook, just seeing how difficult and expensive certain things are. I've sort of been considering writing a quest, see. Anyway, I came to the conclusion that, unless I can justify to myself that the situation in the scenario involved:

• the intervention of both an 11th level cleric and a fourteenth level wizard and
• an expenditure of 15,000 gp (that's three hundred pounds of solid gold, folks),

then I probably

Spoiler:

should not include an animated object in said scenario.

Seriously. Fifteen thousand gold pieces.

[Andreas Forster]

It depends on why they would want to spend that amount of gold to create that encounter. If the treasure or information thus protected is worth it for them, then why not.

[Jeffrey Fox]

You can use craft construct to make animated objects without the need for permanency. Cost is reduced as well.

[GM Lamplighter]

Objects can also be animated by events, as it were... you don't have to count coins when designing a scenario unless it's loot the PCs can get.

[Woran]

You can if its Zartha's furniture. She got an Onyx expense account.

[pauljathome]

So, what you're saying, is that the D&D economy and dungeon building rules makes essentially NO sense? Wow, I'd never noticed that :-) :-) :-).

Oh, and I used D&D instead of Pathfinder since this is clearly a legacy issue.