<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=188886.msg10524432#msg10524432">Quote from: Ebb on 23-09-2014, 16:05:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">We obviously have different experiences and preferences, which is fine. In my experience keeping track of gold doesn't add much to the game, and doesn't reflect the kind of fiction that I like to create. Practically speaking, adding up resale value for mundane equipment almost never gets you to the amount of gold that you need to purchase even the lowest level magic items; they're just on different scales altogether. For similar reasons, when building characters at anything above maybe fourth level or so I prefer to just assume that any and all mundane equipment is free and only focus on magic items. Even in high level games I prefer to deal with magic items, purchasing spellcasting and other big ticket items by barter and swap rather than assuming everything can be readily converted to coins. It's certainly not a universal preference, just my own.<br/><br/>The difficulty, of course, is not in adding 50 to 50. The difficulty is mandating that the GM make exhaustive lists of everything that isn't nailed down and the corresponding value of each item, just to enable the players to do the addition. In my experience the GM's time is better spent on more creative tasks.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>While I get where you are going with that, all of the leg work has already been done for me in the modules of creating lists of items, as well as most of the creative aspects. I'd certainly be okay with merchants using a barter system or item swap system for magic items, but I'm not so okay with letting mundane equipment be free, especially at our currently levels. Some mundane items are just as powerful as magic ones if used properly. Perhaps that could be a balance we can strike for now? Trading similarly priced items with merchants as much as possible and only dipping into cash when its not?