8/7/2019 DC Adventures Wealth Rules

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WEALTH

Characters in DC Adventures can

make purchases based on their wealth and the

cost of items. Rather than keep a bookkeepers

ledger for the team, characters can use the

following optional rules for determining if they

can afford an item.

PURCHASES AND POWER POINTS

Characters can purchase Equipment

and Devices using this system. However, if a

player wishes to make the Device a permanent

feature of the character, he must pay Power

Points for it, or else he looses it (except maybe

as an occasional Power Stunt).

BENEFITS OF WEALTH

As stated in the Heros Handbook,

Chapter 5: Advantages, characters can possess

a Benefit called Wealth, which increases the

characters financial and material resources.

Below you will find a recap of the Ranks of

Wealth.

You will notice two additional Ranks

of Wealth; Poor and Destitute. While not true

Ranks, they represent two versions of the

Poverty Complication you can get for your

character. Playing up Poor gets you one Hero

Point to spend, while Destitute gets you Two

Hero Points if you play it correctly.

Each Rank of Wealth centers on a

point on the Wealth Ranks and Measures table

(center of this page). Wherever the character

makes a purchase, his Wealth determines the

characters Ability to afford purchases (see

Making Purchases, below).

MAKING PURCHASES

Any time the character wishes to make apurchase, he must make two checks; a Bartering

Check and a Purchase Check. If both checks

succeed, the character has purchased the item. If the

character purchased a Device, he must spend PowerPoints for the Device before the end of the session, or

he looses the item (or must reserve it for Power

Stunts).

Bartering Checks

The character must make an opposed check

against the other party using one of the following Skills;

Deception (to trick the target into accepting a bad deal)

Expertise (Appraisal of X, Trading, etc.), or Persuasion.

The victor may move the AP cost of the item by 1 AP

per degree of success in his favor.

Example: Bruce Wayne wants to buy LuthorJetCorp. from Lex Luthor, whom has set the AP cost at 22.

They make opposed checks, with Bruce pitting his

Deception 8 (+15) (trying to disguise how much he

really needs this purchase to undermine some of

Luthors power in Gotham) against Lexs Expertise:

Business 7 (+18). Bruce rolls a 14 for a total of 29,

while Lex rolls a 5 for a total of 23. Bruce wins the roll,

with two degrees of success, so he lowers the AP cost

to 20.

Purchase Checks

Now the character must make a Purchase

Check to see if he can afford the item. He makes the

check using his Center Point as his Ability. The APs of

Cost +10 serve as the difficulty.

Such a purchase has an effect on the

characters standing Wealth. Subtract the Cost APs

from the Wealth APs to see the characters Standing

Wealth for making other purchases. Wealth APs

recover at the Wealth Rank in APs per week.

However, for each degree of success on the Purchase

Check, the character gets an additional recovery during

the first week. Each degree of failure delays recovery

by one week.

Example: Bruce has Rank 5 Wealth, giving him

a Center Point of 20 APs. LuthorJet costs 20 APs as

well, making the Difficulty Class 30. He rolls a 19, for

a total of 39. Again he gets two degrees of success, so

even though Bruce has zero APs of Wealth for the

remainder of the week, he will recover 15 APs the

following week. By the end of two weeks, hell have

restored his Wealth to normal.

DC ADVENTURES JAYSONS HOUSE RULES

AP Dollar Value

-5 $25.00

-4 $50.00

-3 $100.00

-2 $200.00

-1 $400.00

0 $800.00

1 $1,600.00

2 $3,200.00

3 $6,400.00

4 $12,800

5 $25,600

6 $51,200

7 $102,400

8 $204,800

9 $409,600

10 $819,200

11 $1,638,400

12 $3,276,800

13 $6,553,600

14 $13,107,200

15 $26,214,400

16 $52,428,800

17 $104,857,600

18 $209,715,200

19 $419,430,400

20 $838,860,800

21 $1,677,721,600

22 $3,355,443,200

23 $6,710,886,400

24 $13,421,772,800

25 $26,843,545,600

26 $53,687,091,200

27 $107,374,182,400

28 $214,748,364,800

29 $429,496,729,600

30 $858,993,459,200

+1 X2

Rank Wealth Center

5 Billionaire 20

4 Multi-Millionaire 15

3 Millionaire 10

2 Independently Wealthy 5

1 Well-Off 2

0 Average 0

-1 Poor -2

-2 Destitute -4