>>95992815
> aside from that, if you pick up a cool unique weapon, you can just use it. you don't have to fuck around with runes at all. all those Specific Magic Weapons you get are actually useful

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>if every single fuckin piece of gold you get is going towards keeping up on math you aren't getting loot, you're getting EXP 2, and not even in the XP-for-gold way where you get both because you get filthy rich in those games

Striking runes are 65gp and potency runes are 35gp, if you craft it then they're even cheaper and many items can take advantage of Doubling Rings to replicate runes. A party of four should have gotten 3175 gp worth of stuff from 1-6 according to the Treasure by Level table

Obviously him or the GM isn't doing loot correctly or he is trying to buy runes way ahead of the curve. I recommend loot by encounter table, since most GMs do not do exp RAW or have a hard time keeping track of how much they've handed out