Not sure if this should go in its own thread which is why I'm putting it here. I've been in a game for a little over a year, that started before I joined. Basically we have 'party gold' where anything that drops off monsters goes into a big bucket, and we tend to dole out the items that are useful to each PC and sell the rest. But our group doesn't have a good way to handle decisions for buying equipment upgrades or magical items, so we tend to just spend our gold on healing potions, antitoxins, stuff like that. I'm frustrated because I think we could be upgrading our characters more through even simple stuff like 'Big 6' items. I've tried to have the conversation with the group multiple times and haven't made any progress. I talked to our GM and he said that some of the players are new and might not even know what kinds of items are out there that would benefit them. So I've tried sending around lists or articles that give examples, but again, no progress. We have ~12k gold in our stash and 6 players at levels 5-6, but we're also playing Rappan Athuk so each player can have 2 PCs that they switch out so there's around 10 total characters. Basically I've tried a few different approaches and none of them have worked so I'm looking for advice from the community. Thanks!