[Necromancer Games] The Mother of all Treasure Tables™

[Necromancer Games] The Mother of all Treasure Tables™

The Mother of All Treasure Tables™ puts the "ah!" (or awe) back into your treasures!

From the farthest corners of the earth, a vast array of treasure has been gathered. Never before has such a book been available, to provide with a simple roll of the dice a random selection of detailed descriptions - treasures that include weapons and walking sticks, elaborate jewelry and wooden buttons, carved boxes with secret compartments, rare ivory and iron pots. There are statuettes, royal robes, belts, antique coins, and armor suitable for the greatest adventurers of legend. Each treasure has been carefully calculated based on standard values but there is nothing standard about these treasures!

Here in a single volume are nearly 700 treasures to use individually or mix into an astronomical number of combinations, more carefully thought out and detailed than any before. Containing treasures suitable for the lowliest of pickpockets and brawlers or the most splendid of kings and queens, this book will augment your imagination and encourage your heroes to ever strive for more opportunities to obtain treasure. Creative flair and painstaking research together provide you with treasure that is as "real" as you can get in a world with dragons and wizards. This is The Mother of All Treasure Tables™!

Published by Necromancer Games, the book was written by the good people at Tabletop Adventures. Bill Webb of Necromancer wrote, “This is the coolest book I have ever seen.” Clark Peterson commented, “I was blown away. I think this book is really cool and Bill and I are very proud to be putting it out under our banner.”

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Retail Price: 19.99 PDF, 27.99 hardcover
Available in Print: late summer, 2006; Distributed through Kenzer and Company
Page Count: 162 pages
Authors: Tabletop Adventures


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This book is killer

When I first approached TTA w/ the idea, we all thought that it was a great idea. In the final manuscript, they wildly exceeded my expectations. Anyone who has read the 1E Treasure Placement section of the DMG will love this book...

No longer do the ogres have 2 1000 gp gems, now they have:

There is a huge chest of oak [5 gp] with a rounded
lid and black iron fastenings and supports. It
has a great iron ring on each end and two more
on either side to assist in lifting it. Coins are
scattered on the ground around the chest [15 pp,
12 gp, 17 sp, 25 cp]. It looks as if the coins were
dropped by someone in a great hurry. The massive
chest itself is bound in iron. When you
open it you see it holds bags of coins, but it is significantly
less then half full. Most of the sacks
are tied but a few have been opened and not
retied; some stray coins are spilled among the
bags. Careful inspection reveals there are fifteen
bags [2 sp each] of copper pieces [600 cp each];
another ten bags [2 sp each] contain silver [a total
of 6,456 sp]. Scattered among the bags are a few
hundred loose coins [1 pp, 16 gp, 682 sp, 125 cp].
If there was anything else here, it is gone now.
[Total 1,005 gp]

and..

it is deep enough you cannot see anything without
more light. [If someone lifts a light to the hole
When you hold a light up to the hole you can
see a medium-sized bag inside [1 sp]. You pull it
out and quickly discover it is filled with coins
[105 gp, 2,395 sp]. However, the bag was not the
only thing in the hole. You next pull out a single,
spiked gauntlet. This seems to be no ordinary
gauntlet. The spikes have a polished silver
gleam, and the gauntlet itself is unexpectedly
light [mithral; 505 gp]. You check one more time
in the deep recess and find another, smaller bag.
You hear metal on metal as you open it to find
six golden shuriken [25 gp each]. Each shuriken
has a small etching of a dragon on it, and you
can not tell if these throwing weapons were
meant to be ceremonial or actually used in battle.
[Total 999.6 gp]

pretty cool huh

small stuff to Epic

a couple more examples...btw, there are hundreds of these in this book.

First, what has it got in its pocketses?

Opening the old leather pouch [2 sp] [or pocket]
you find numerous silver pieces [23 sp], the severed
foot of a small animal [rabbit’s foot, 1 cp],
and a tiny silver shaker. The shaker is half full of
a white substance that you assume is salt. [It is
indeed ordinary salt; shaker 4 gp.] [Total 6.51 gp]
02 You discover a lump of translucent amber wax
the size of an apricot [5 cp] and something reddish
glistens inside. Prying the wax ball open,
you discover a jagged piece of pink
rhodochrosite [9 gp] the size of a child's thumbnail.
[Total 9.05 gp]


and last...what is in that dragon hoard after all?


Surrounded by the largest pile of coins you have
ever laid eyes on [1,000 pp, 20,000 gp, 300,000
sp, 900,000 cp which would fill a 10’ by 10’ area
about 30 inches deep], you see what looks to be
the disembodied head of a gargantuan red dragon
[15,000 gp], along with two marble statues of
dragons, each the height of a rearing horse
[25,000 gp each], and a golden throne [834,000
gp]. The vast heap of coinage is a mix of modern
coins and ancient pieces of gold and silver from
long-dead empires, some bright and shiny and
others tarnished with the grime of centuries.
The dragon head is just what it appears to be:
the entire head of a great wyrm red dragon,
expertly preserved and mounted on a huge piece
of mahogany. The head itself is larger than a
horse, and covered in thousands of gnarled,
rough-edged scales; its teeth are the size of short
swords, wickedly sharp and yellowed with age.
The dragon’s eyes have been replaced with large
spheres of smoky glass, hooded by heavy eyelids
rimmed in spikes as long as a dwarf’s hand.
Upon closer examination, you see the two
marble statues are of that very same red dragon
– the slitted eyes and distinctive parallel rows of
spikes along its ridged head are identical. The
first statue is carved from a single massive piece
of pale blue marble, shot through with veins of
deeper red. It evidently depicts the dragon in its
youth, sitting atop a heap of treasure – including
the gold throne which is part of this hoard –
with the corpse of a heavily armored adventurer
clutched in one upraised claw. The statue would
be flawless if not for several chips and deep
scratches around its base, apparently made by
edged weapons.
The second statue shows the wyrm several
centuries later, probably shortly before its death.
The dragon is much larger, and its scaly hide
bears the scars of countless battles. It sits astride
a monstrous hoard, and you can see the other
marble statue and the golden throne among the
other treasures. Like the first statue, this one is
exquisitely detailed, and it, too, has been
chipped by weapons over its years in the dragon’s
hoard.
After clearing the coins away from the base of
the throne, you can finally get a good look at it.
The seat and central portion of the back are
made of black marble, threaded through with
tendrils of pale gray. The metallic arms and legs
of the throne are carved in the shape of young
gold dragons, each of which has a gleaming
sword thrust through its head. Their wings are
partly unfurled, sticking out on both sides of the
throne. Looming over the back of the throne is
a golden carving of the red dragon depicted in
the marble statues. It has huge rubies for eyes,
and its teeth are tipped with diamonds. [Total
968,000 gp]