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#1 Mr_Miscellany Aug 29, 2011 17:38:12	Hello All, I'm working on an adventure idea for the Herioc Teir of play, where characters are sent by the Crown of Cormyr to search for dragon lairs belonging to (presumably) dead dragons in the Stormhorns and Thunder Peaks. As a DM, if you were running such an adventure, how much would you have the Crown of Cormyr pay adventurers (i.e. your players) to do the exploring? EDIT: I haven't run the 4E rules in about a year and a half. Not sure what the wealth by level rules are in the 4E Dungeon Master's Guide.
#2 Timmeh Aug 30, 2011 15:39:46	They don't have wealth by level rules; the game expects the players to be armed appropriately and that's about it. Wrecan has a wealth by level chart; make sure to read the instructions or it will make little sense.
#3 Mr_Miscellany Aug 31, 2011 11:04:54	Thanks Timmeh. Hahaha (laughing at me here): the chart is rather confusing after the first read-through. I think I'm going to opt-out of giving a lump-sum payment from the Crown of Cormyr and instead let the DM determine payment as follows: One idea might be payment structured on a tier system: the more tasks the players succeed at (finding the lair, mapping it, determining fixed dangers, types of creatures, etc...), the more they get paid. If the characters survive one or two lairs (and gain a level from each lair exploration), the Crown will up the payments on the assumption the characters are like normal people and thus might be considering opting out of furher explorations so as to preserve their lives.