Letters to the Lombards

What Wizards Do When They're in Deep Debt

Often enough, people like to ask loaded questions, such as: Why would Wizards go on Adventure? or Why does Adventuring not break the financial system of the faux medieval milieu most games are set in?

I admit, reading treatises about this can be entertaining, but it doesn't help me have a better game. I find the question of How is it that Wizards behave that money is never enough and Adventurers do not change too much of the overall status quo? slightly more interesting.