Money
I've been thinking a lot lately about randomly generated backgrounds and the inclusion of the GP roll with the initial six... letting people roll 3d6 x7 and arrange them amongst attributes and their starting gold. Why not make that gold roll serve double duty? With a table that gives some background and how they got the gold? Maybe some random starting items?
3 Destitute. Money begged and saved over a life time. 4-5 Lower Class. Farmers or Laborers. 6-8 ??? 9-12 Middle Class Craftsman or perhaps a Reeve? 13-15 Merchant Class. 16-17 Nobility. 18 King's Immediate Family. Inherit a single random magic item.
This is really sketchy and off the top of my head to illustrate the idea. What do folks think?
drcheckmate http://www.dragonsfoot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44753