[DF] - Party wealth disparity

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

More than buying improved delving gear, I'd suspect that a money-oriented character is best suited to providing logistics

Very much so. This is his main value to the party. Anybody who thinks it counts as "not pulling his weight" is welcome to pay for his own share of uncursings, lodgings, loot shipping, arrows, drinks, repairs to the inn after drinks . . . In my own experience running fantasy that bordered at times on DF, this was in fact what the rich PCs provided. Basic gear? Well, you could find that. But provisions, rooms, transportation, ammunition, tolls, etc.? It added up. The Very Wealthy patrician (who happened to be a Weapon Master, but so what?) bought the party out of all manner of tedium. It was this, not his fighting skills, that made his word the one most often listened to by the others; in effect, it led to his becoming the de facto leader.

A lot of players seem to forget that paying the $10,000 to hire the ship to the dungeon is as useful as healing people in the dungeon.