((Hope, like Raw Chaos, Souls, uh... and a few other things are the<em>only</em>way that we can buy magical items whose value is worth<strong>over</strong>15,000 gp. So, try to blow the Hope all in one shot on a single 100k item. Otherwise you're actually cheapening the value of what you got. An other option is to<em>save up</em>the Hope.<br/><br/>Actual "gold" is worthless to buy magical items worth 15,0001 and more gp. In my own games, Dragons have massive hoards of millions of copper, silver, gold and platinum. The players only bother with the gems, or "real" magical items, even if no one can use said items.)))<br/><br/><br/>