How does anything stay locked?

[phiwum]

Originally Posted by hcobb

If the wizards don't already have all the money then just wait a few months.

These thieving unstoppable wizards just push the problem back a step. Now you're positing that various groups of wizards will be extraordinarily wealthy. Fine. How do they hold onto their wealth, given that there are other wizards?

In any case, I'm not running a campaign dominated by unstoppable wizards with insatiable appetites. I'm trying to model a coherent and interesting world in which there is magic and swords side-by-side. If I have to make an unwarranted assumption that the vast majority of NPC wizards are just not dull examples of homo economicus struggling to win the social Darwinian game, I'll do that.

But I have to allow that some wizards are bound to be greedy and base and I have to take that into account when thinking about how to secure wealth. At least, I have to if I want to consider how a bank robbery might be both possible and preventable by PCs.

ETA: And, I might add, I don't want players to get the notion that they can pull off such a robbery!