I always felt the wealth system in dark heresy seemed, how do I say this, absolutely absurd. As an inquisitor's acolyte you supposedly have access to near endless resources for doing the emperor's will but you have trouble buying weapons let alone buying ammunition. Bolt ammo is very very expensive when your firing 3 round bursts.
In the entire book of dark heresy it talks about the resources available to inquisition agents. Now, I know you are just accolytes and I'm not saying you should all be given lascannons and rocket launchers with unlimited abundancy and access to tanks...however, you'd think the inquisition could pull a few strings to make sure their agents had ammunition for their stub revolvers.
Even in the Rogue Trader book, page 324, underneath "The Inquisition" and I quote, "Although no longer able to call on the nigh-limitless resources of the Inquisition, the Rogue Trader will still wield considerable powers and influence." I thought Rogue Traders were better off than Inquisitors but apparently its a step down. Now, I understand this is for FULL inquisitors but accolytes should experience some measure of benefit for this. After all, what inquisitor sends ill equipped agents into the field.
My proposal is a profit system like rogue trader, although maybe not the same one. Afterall the system would work best with a scale of 0-150 just like in Rogue Trader but an accolyte will never have the same wealth of a 'mighty imperial ogranisation' which is 150 where the rogue trader scale stops. Likely 150 in accolyte terms equals around 70 in rogue trader terms. Which I think is a good transparency.
I have the rules fleshed out but don't want to post them until I get some feedback on them. Am I daft or correct? Any thoughts, ideas, comments?