Third Level Gold, What am I missing?

[gareth]

So I've finally got access to the Player's Handbook, and I can check everything that's left out of the SRD. Like starting gold: a 1st level cleric gets 5d4X10 gold, or an average of 125, or a maximum of 200. All his equipment comes from that pool of gold. But what if I'm starting a game with a third level cleric? If he's being created from scratch at third level, what's the standard amount of gold to buy his equipment from? I have the feeling I'm missing something basic here.

[InaVegt]

So I've finally got access to the Player's Handbook, and I can check everything that's left out of the SRD. Like starting gold: a 1st level cleric gets 5d4X10 gold, or an average of 125, or a maximum of 200. All his equipment comes from that pool of gold. But what if I'm starting a game with a third level cleric? If he's being created from scratch at third level, what's the standard amount of gold to buy his equipment from? I have the feeling I'm missing something basic here.

That's, unfortunately enough, listen in the DMG

[Peregrine]

Specifically, page 135, table 5-1, "Character Wealth by Level". Since creating characters above first level is at the DM's discretion (whereas creating a 1st-level character is treated as the default), that's where the rules for it end up.

[bugsysservant]

You use the wealth by level (WBL) guidelines in the DMG. Off the top of my head, I think they are on page 137, but I really don't know why I would know that page off the top of my head.

Edit: DOUBLE NINJA'D! And my page number was apparently off. *goes and eats a cookie to cheer himself up*

[Lord Lorac Silvanos]

You will find that information in the DMG page 135.


EDIT: *Sigh* Ninjas. So many ninjas.

[Peregrine]

Edit: DOUBLE NINJA'D! And my page number was apparently off. *goes and eats a cookie to cheer himself up*

Hey, you were closer than me... I started out looking in chapter 3. *tops up the cookie jar*

[Darkantra]

whoops, forgot to hit the post button for about an hour, thoroughly beaten.

[gareth]

Thanks, I expected it would something simple like that.

[Jack Mann]

You can also find it in the Magic Item Compendium (pg. 231) and Player's Handbook II (pg. 215).

[Yakk]

You could also note that getting to 3rd level, canonically, requires defeating 3 and 1/3 "shares" of L 1 and L 2 encounters each (13 and 1/3, but you get 1/4 of the treasure each).

Which comes out to (300+600)*3.3333 = 3000 gp.

The wealth by encounter is encoded:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/treasure.htm

Multiplying by 3 and 1/3, you get:

L  Marg   Total to
1  1000   0
2  2000   1000
3  3000   3000
4  4000   6000
5  5333   10000
6  6666   15333
7  8666   22000
8  11333  30666
9  15000  42000
10 19333  57000
11 25000  76333
12 32666  101333
13 43333  134000
14 56666  177333
15 73333  234000
16 93333  307333
17 120000 400666
18 156666 520666
19 203333 677333
20 266666 880666
21   -    1147333

After that, you need to factor in "wastage" (selling stuff and buying it back, using up charges, etc) -- but this is a pure-SRD solution to the problem.

[Jacob Orlove]

Hmm, a good, round number for wasteage? How about knocking 10% off of each of those totals? Sound fair?