Game decisions are limited, the strategy is clear. Generally, things within a game don't suddenly change in a way that totally rearranges the entire economy.

Out in the real world, we face changing rules, different definitions of success, and most people trying to give advice don't know what the people they're talking to are facing.

In D&D 5e, you can get infinite money while living a life of luxury from an Uncommon item, Alchemy Jug, by making vials of acid.

Even just a few hundred gold in D&D 5e is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your average D&D party are multi-millionaires.

Never had a cracked head gasket in Faerun.

My husband and I had a conversation about this once. Why do we always end up rich with multiple houses in video games, when we're broke AF in real life? Why can't we transfer some of that into the real world. Then we realized the answer. Crime. We play criminals in video games. Skyrim? I'll have 300,000 gold and 6 houses by level 40. I'll also have robbed every single house, every NPC, and shop in every hold. Damned morals keeping me from doing that in the real world.

fuck, i wish i could just go to the woods and wrestle some goblins for their shitty weapons that i can then sell at the supermarket for 5gp a pop

my financial decisions in games are already shit, you can imagine what my bank account looks like

If I could go around selling random junk like burned books and toasters to every vendor in town, I would be doing a LOT better.

That's me optimizing my characters in Genshin Impact using damage calculators.

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In games you are petty-bourgeois and own your labor products.