Rolling Over Dragons sleep on a hoard of money. Why wouldn’t adventurers? That way you know it’s safe, unlike when it’s in a vault or bank that could the subject of a heist at any moment…
The Justification for Profit is Profit Being a murder-hobo motivated by the acquisition of gold pieces makes total sense in a D&D or fantasy roleplaying game. It doesn’t work nearly as well in other genres, especially ones that eschew material […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Priorities It’s hard to resist the draw of treasure in mid-battle when it’s *right there*. Occasionally, at the end of a combat, one player will decide it’s just easier to begin looking for treasure rather than journeying across the entire […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unwanted Loose Change Silver pieces are meant to be the backbone of the D&D economy. Silver and copper coins likely constitute the majority of transactions and purchases in town. They represent a full day’s pay to average untrained labourer. Basically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Raunchy Reading Savage humanoid art is probably fairly explicit. They likely have paintings and carvings that borders on the obscene. Especially a race like orcs that is all about violence and the strong dominating the weak. Their reproduction likely isn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Treasure Beyond Worth My players are a little surprised by the wealth of their PCs in my current 5e campaign. Or rather the percentage of their wealth that is consumed by iron rations in preparation for an expedition. Money […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every Party’s Worst Nightmare I love the wand of wonder. Because it makes the routine exceptional. It’s just fun, even if it disrupts the game. I’m a believer that what makes encounters memorable after the fact is when things don’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forever Stained When you think about treasure – and I mean really think about treasure – some odd moral quandaries emerge. This goes beyond just the tacitly approved murder and theft justified because the victims are capital-E evil. If orcs used […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smashing Good Time I play Diablo and the various Lego games with my wife. She has a habit of gleefully singing “money, money, money… mon-EEE” as she smashes everything breakable in sight to snatch up coins, studs, and other treasure, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bag of Hoarding Once players gain access to a bag of holding or a Handy Haversack the game transitions to Extreme Hoarders: Fantasy Edition. Everything that might be of use is tucked away in an extradimensional pocket in the unlikely event of it becoming […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Boots of Weirdness This is not my original blog. I had this whole other thing planned about treasure slots not always fitting how the PCs view their character, and how players sometimes have to choose between optimization and the character. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Implausible Deniability Any player that has spent any time dungeon crawling is familiar with the scenario in today’s comic. They walk into a room, violently and loudly slaughter every living thing in said room, remove all valuables from the cooling corpses, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
