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Originally Posted by Colarmel
To be clear: I'm rolling a wealthy thief. And his basic needs are simple. Beyond his basic needs, he'd like to save up for bigger stuff. I want to debase the coin remaining after the basics are met. Also, because this is DoA, essentially an extended playtest of the random dungeon generator, "beginning of play" is a fuzzy thing.
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Still, since you can't buy anything you are "saving up" for until you visit someplace that sells it, there's no particular reason to roll to debase the coins until you do. So starting with the cash and rolling the first time you return to Town, or for that matter not rolling until you have almost enough for the thing you are saving up for, seems just as good as rolling early.
For that matter rolling when you are about spend them might well be the way to go in general, since it doesn't require you to separately track your honest and debased coins, which otherwise you do need to do, since you can't debase them multiple times.
Edit: Come to think of it, it's pretty necessary for the critical failure condition to make sense too. If you debase your coins and then disintegrate them or something, how do the king's men ever find out? You aren't at risk for the critical failure result until you spend them (or at least show them to somebody), so you probably shouldn't roll before then either.