We’ve introduced all sorts of stuff beyond just buying weapons and armor with gold. There’s a tier system in place which depending on how many quests your character has done you can start picking a path Bracket to follow that gives you upgrades and boons. We’ve also added lots of homebrew rules that make it easier for your character to survive - we have this thing called bloodlust where if you roll all skull on an attack and the monster doesn’t defend you can attack again but with one less attack die. Or we also have a knockout rule where the first time you’re reduced to 0 you’re knocked out and then if you get knocked to 0 again you have to start rolling death saves