GawainBS wrote:Strange. Most DMs who allow LA races, allow buy-off and are very loose in other things.
It hurts if your DM is stingy with rewards. Gear (and thus money) is included in your power when comparing CRs. Hence the Wealth by Level table.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, or on another forum, but our DM basically believes that the DMG rewards table is faulty, and instead goes by the "starter" table in the DMG. I think it's 946k for a lv 20 character. Something like that. So basically if we have items worth more money than that, he's messed up somewhere along the lines. I only experienced it during the end of the battle because I came in late to the game. I had a character from another campaign by another DM, and he wasn't the least bit stingy. So there was a grave difference between all of the characters, and what could be done. Granted all of the other characters did 3-4 times the amount of damage I could, but I had the items to make up for stats, health, saves, penalties, and survival in general. One of the players looked at my character sheet, and pratically drooled. He looked at our DM and said "Now that's how a lv 20 character SHOULD look. Damn you're stingy."