New Advantage: Wealthy

 

I had to use this picture. I grew up watching wrestling as a kid in the '80s and well frankly this is an '80s game, I am just updating and why not use the most iconic money guy in wrestling to present a new advantage called Wealthy! Following the rules in the book, this falls under Misc Advantage type.

Wealthy

Cost: 50 Hero Points

This is pretty simple, you are a very rich man, you are a CEO of your own company that hit the big time. Sit with your Game Master and devise a back story for your company. This could be as simple as you inherited it from your family to you invented some weird new device that all the kids are raving about. Maybe you invented Post-its or the short cigarette, who knows your imagination is yours!

Characters will this advantage will automatically have their wealth moved up to a 10, which entitles them to $25,000 weekly salary, with a yearly income of about $1m. Depending on your age, you could have some savings as well. See Chart Below.

Age Range	Savings in bank
20 to 25	2 million
26 to 30	4 million
31 to 40	10 million
41+	20 million

Wealth Chart for 2021 and ongoing

 

So here is the wealth chart that's listed in the DC books, I went up to 25 to represent Lex Luthor's fortune and worth in the 2020s. 

I will say I rarely use this chart and the wealth system in the game because when I run games, I normally put my PCs into a position where they really don't need to worry about "superhero money". Sure they will have a salary as listed, but its more for lifestyle purposes when they aren't playing their superhero.

Generally in my games, if your character is a teenager, his salary would be anywhere from 0 to 3, because you are living at home with the folks and probably have a part time job while going to school and into college.

If you are in your 20s, generally your salary will fall under 4 to 5 range as you are probably still finishing up a degree or just entering into the real work force with your first real 9 to 5 job.

If you are in your 30s, generally your salary will fall under 5 to 6 range as you are probably making decent money, unless you picked skills and provided a decent background that would push you up further or picked the wealth advantage.

Wealth	Approx. Weekly	Approx. Annual Incoming
(In APs)	Salary	(Adjusted for 2020s)
0	$25 or less a week	$1250 or less
1	$26 - $50	$2500
2	$51 - $100	$5000
3	$101 - $200	$10000
4	$201 - $400	$20000
5	$401 - $800	$40000
6	$1500	$80000
7	$3000	$150000
8	$6000	$300000
9	$12500	$500000
10	$25000	$1000000
11	$50000	$2000000
12	$100000	$4000000
13	$200000	$8000000
14	$400000	$15M
15	$800000	$30M
16	$1.5M	$50M
17	$3M	$100M
18	$6M	$200M
19	$10M	$400M
20	$25M	$800M
21	$50M	$1.5B
22	$100M	$3B
23	$250M	$6B
24	$500M	$12B
25	$1B	$24B

   M= Millions, B = Billions

Explaining it all on this blog

In 2020, during the COVID-19 lock-down, I remembered I created this blog out of sheer boredom and a desire to bring my old notebook scribbles to the virtual world. However, I quickly became overwhelmed by the task of designing the necessary templates for the characters, and ultimately abandoned the project. As lock-downs lifted and life began to return to some semblance of normalcy in 2021, I rediscovered my love for this game and realized that I had a wealth of material still from the past and from my short-lived "GOTHAM LEGENDS"  game on my YouTube channel. Among these treasures are countless write-ups, as well as my personal creation, Nightfall Bay, a custom city of my own design.