[DF] - Party wealth disparity

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Whyte

I was going to add something more, but the thought escaped my mind... Ah, there it is. Like TBC and others mention, the adventurers tend to be pretty violent bunch. And I for one would like my partymembers to think of me as a good guy and an asset to be protected, than 'that greedy, doubledealing, conniving SoB'.

How would they ever know?

The Wealth Advantage in Dungeon Fantasy is essentially paying points to have access to contacts, special offers or other things that other people are not privy too.

If the other players inquire about the value of their loot anywhere in town, they're told that it's worth X*0.4. McMoneybags tells them that he can get X*0.5 for it and they give it to him to sell. He then sells it for X*0.6 (or X*0.8) and if he doesn't feel comfortable walking out with all the cash, just spends the excess with his fellow guildmember, contact, whatever.

How, without metagaming, would the other characters ever have cause to be unhappy with this division?

Hell, if the issue is that he's lying to his fellow party members, nothing forbids the GM from stating that a member of the Merchant's Guild who sells loot in town receives a certain percentage of its value as a rebate into his account with the Guild. Then he's not lying at all, about anything. He just benefits more from selling loot than his fellow adventurers as a result of his position (paid for with points spent on the Wealth Advantage).