So many golds

[sambouchah]

Recently we were in an orc village that had an organized fighting tournament typed thing. Anyway one of our party left all his gold with me while he beat the snot out of an opponent. I bet a bookie he would win, he won. It made him 1.5 Million gold.

What should we buy with this hoard???

Thanks, Sam:smallbiggrin:

[Neo Tin Robo]

Lands and holdings. Also servants.

Edit: Those are some pretty honest orcs if they actually allow you to leave with 1.5 million of their golds.

[sambouchah]

Lands and holdings. Also servants.

I suggested that already, I dunno what he'll think of the idea. He wants ome big scary all powerful weapon I think.

Deathstar anyone?:smallbiggrin:

Edit: We killed all their soldiers.

[Mando Knight]

...How the hell does an Orc village have 1.5 million gp in it?

[hymer]

...How the hell does an Orc village have 1.5 million gp in it?

Don't ask that. Hire mercenaries and go on an anti-orc campaign instead.

[Neo Tin Robo]

That might be possible, but it's the kind of thing that can sabotage your game pretty quickly, or the DM just finds a way of nuking it to reestablish sanity in his campaign. Whereas just owning your own corner of the world shouldn't be nearly as troublesome and is actually a lot of fun.

[sambouchah]

...How the hell does an Orc village have 1.5 million gp in it?

My guess is that they were coins crafted from a nearby gold mine or something. DM didn't really give us much to go on other than "1.5 mil."

[Deadline]

What should we buy with this hoard??

A clue. Seriously, you just got ripped off by a bunch of Orcs. There is no way they have that much cash laying around in their mud and thatch huts (or caves). You've been duped. They probably had an orc shaman cast the equivalent of a Fool's Gold spell on some tin coins and bagged them up for you by the wagon load.

Quick! Check your monies!

On a more serious note, in the unlikely event that your GM isn't messing with you, that much cash could buy a sweet epic-level weapon.

Or 27 Daern's Instant Fortresses and enough castings of Wall of Iron to join them all together in the worlds largest Castle?

[karkus]

Maybe use some most of the money on making a personal demiplane with keyed amulets of 1/day Plane Shift (it would be much more cost-effective to just give it access to your demiplane instead of any plane) enchantments on them so that anyone in your party can pop back into your own little stronghold any time.

[Devils_Advocate]

... Do you mean literally one and a half million gold pieces?

Because that's, um, 30,000 pounds of gold, I'm pretty sure. How are you transporting that? How did they even give it to you? It's not like they can just casually hand it over. We are talking about a massive quantity of heavy metal, here.

At one second a coin and 8 hours of work per day, it would take 52 days just to count all of that, if I've done my math right. It would be pretty much crazy to actually transfer that much wealth in the form of coins. Like, even if it were specifically a transfer of gold, you'd use bars or the like for something like that. Because you'd definitely be transferring gold as a commodity rather than a currency in the normal sense.

... Your DM probably meant "gold" as an abstract unit of currency. No, wait, not probably, definitely. Even if that's not what he thinks he meant, that is what he meant. Moving on!

What sort of odds did you get on that bet? (Related question: How rich were you all before? What level is everyone, anyway?)

[sambouchah]

... Do you mean literally one and a half million gold pieces?

Because that's, um, 30,000 pounds of gold, I'm pretty sure. How are you transporting that? How did they even give it to you? It's not like they can just casually hand it over. We are talking about a massive quantity of heavy metal, here.

At one second a coin and 8 hours of work per day, it would take 52 days just to count all of that, if I've done my math right. It would be pretty much crazy to actually transfer that much wealth in the form of coins. Like, even if it were specifically a transfer of gold, you'd use bars or the like for something like that. Because you'd definitely be transferring gold as a commodity rather than a currency in the normal sense.

... Your DM probably meant "gold" as an abstract unit of currency. No, wait, not probably, definitely. Even if that's not what he thinks he meant, that is what he meant. Moving on!

What sort of odds did you get on that bet? (Related question: How rich were you all before? What level is everyone, anyway?)

A wolf(trained to carry stuff) with 37 strength, a Gnoll with 22, a bear with 23 and everyone else has somewhere above 14. Plus magic and other things

[JusticeZero]

Yeah, millions of GP isn't things that towns and cities have lying around; it's analogous to the purchase price of a stealth bomber or some similar piece of tactical military hardware. I don't see any small towns springing for an aircraft carrier in my neck of the woods.

[Socratov]

well, some people have made excellent suggestions (checking the validity of the gold, just do so in a discrete manner before it was done honestly and they would take it for an insult.

assuming it was honest and you really have a ****ton of gold:

Now first tip your bookie, manners go far to say the least.

Next, get your dream equipment, have it made exactly as you want it. next, go shopping like your life depends on it an get funny stuff. Maybe buy your own dragons all, so you have some nice way of travelling and go adventure some more... the good thing about dragons is you can have them guard your valubles (leasing him/her his/her hoard). Dragons and hoards go along like a bee and flowers. :smallamused:

[GilesTheCleric]

Nightsticks. You can never have too many nightsticks.

When my character broke the WBL, he bought a church. And then several more churches. So far, my DM hasn't punished me for it because I haven't broken the game with it. So I recommend buying nightsticks =P

EDIT: Really though, get some fluff stuff. Advance your characters' personal goals. Or else head to the finest casino in Waterdeep and bet it all on black (Have you ever seen the film Run Lola Run?).

[KillianHawkeye]

Plot Twist: It was a single, large-sized coin with "1.5 million GP" scrawled on it.

[cerin616]

hae someone craft a single +38 attribute ring. for the lolz.

[nedz]

Are you sure it wasn't paper money ?

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a640/NedzNedz/GitP/Zimbabwe_100_trillion_2009_Obverse_zps62778021.jpg

[sambouchah]

Are you sure it wasn't paper money ?

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a640/NedzNedz/GitP/Zimbabwe_100_trillion_2009_Obverse_zps62778021.jpg

Bahaha may have been:smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

[Gazebo's Bane]

Yeah, millions of GP isn't things that towns and cities have lying around; it's analogous to the purchase price of a stealth bomber or some similar piece of tactical military hardware. I don't see any small towns springing for an aircraft carrier in my neck of the woods.

That's OK. Aircraft carriers don't work very well in woodland anyway :smallsmile:

[The Boz]

That might be possible, but it's the kind of thing that can sabotage your game pretty quickly, or the DM just finds a way of nuking it to reestablish sanity in his campaign. Whereas just owning your own corner of the world shouldn't be nearly as troublesome and is actually a lot of fun.

If the PLAYERS agree with the DM to spend the gold on lands and holdings, as opposed to magical adventuring gear, I see no mechanical problem.
However, the problem that MIGHT arise is a motivational one. Of they're so rich, why do they even bother adventuring in the first place?

[Bakkan]

If the PLAYERS agree with the DM to spend the gold on lands and holdings, as opposed to magical adventuring gear, I see no mechanical problem.
However, the problem that MIGHT arise is a motivational one. Of they're so rich, why do they even bother adventuring in the first place?

Depending onthe players and the DM, maybe they don't have to anymore? Maybe the game can change from an adventuring story to a politics/defend the kingdom type of game.

[Krobar]

If you actually do get that kind of money, start a business, hire some folks you can trust to run it while you're gone, and profit.

I recommend shipping. This sort of thing will make you money and provide LOTS of potential adventuring hooks.

[Lightlawbliss]

economics 101: investing is better then throwing it under a bed (or in this case making it into a bed)

now the hard part: how do you want to invest it.

but this really does smell of trickery, there are epic parties that would love to get that mush from one encounter.

also, why BUY land? your rich enough to make land or take land. spending the money on land isn't exactly you best choice at this point. Heck, you just cleaned out an orc village, smells like land to me.