“XP for GP” versus Greed

If you play old versions of D&D or so-called old-school D&D clones, your character needs gold because the rules say that gold confers power. If you are a fighter, you get physically tougher and more dangerous if you carry gold out of caves. If you are a wizard, you learn more spells by doing the same. If you are a cleric, your deity loves you more for the gold you haul to the surface.The game