treasure hoard generation for games (d20)
Here's your treasure... good luck getting it home!
Treasure should be interesting - not just piles of coins! In The Hobbit¸ Tolkien mentions "countless piles of precious things" and "coats of mail¸ helms and axes¸ swords and spears hanging" among the treasures in Smaug's hoard. Fritz Leiber's Grey Mouser finds "slim books bound in gold-lined fine-grained red and violet leather"¸ "a rack of gleaming lenses and slim brass tubes"¸ and "a slim dark-haired girl [in] a gold-barred cage" in his "Bazaar of Bizarre".
Even Gary Gygax recommends against treasure simply being heaps of coin¸ asking "Is not a suit of armor of great value? What of a supply of oil?" and goes on to say that "the upper levels of a dungeon need not be stuffed like a piggy bank".
Unfortunately¸ the rules of old-school RPGs don't give GMs much help in creating interesting and varied treasure hoards… which is where this book comes in! Inside¸ you'll find tables to assist you in crafting treasures with variety! Designed for use with Dungeons & Dragons and similar systems.
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