[DF] - Party wealth disparity

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Kromm

On the other hand, Mr. Moneybags can buy finer gear that weighs less and breaks less often. This makes him useful, but the quantification is difficult because these factors show their value over a very long time scale, not turn-by-turn in combat, say.

More than buying improved delving gear, I'd suspect that a money-oriented character is best suited to providing logistics: making sure the PCs have a place to stay in town, buying plenty of mundane stuff like rations, lighting, ten foot poles, and so on; replacing items which are dissolved by acid slimes, tainted by demonic contact, melted by living flames, and disintegrated by spells; hiring wagons and/or beasts of burden to haul back loads of treasure; and underwriting resurrections for PCs who didn't make it out of the dungeon under their own power. The more I think about it, Moneybags sounds more and more like Don Rickles in Kelly's Heroes.