Re: Re: How much of the treasure does your party find?
roytheodd said:
Heck, here's a great example of how they operate. They wander into a family crypt on a mission. The walls are adorned with retired weapons of ancient warriors (many of them masterwork). The group runs into an Adherer and start losing their weapons to it. They don't think to take the weapons from the walls - at all!! They kill the thing the hard way and then proceed nearly weaponless. Later, as they're leaving the crypt, one of them mentions taking a fancy weapon, but the party says that that's disrespecting the dead. They left the crypt tore to shreds and with no wealth other than what they had upon entering. I might look like an irresponsible DM leaving so many valuables laying around, but I know the group well enough to know that I can. They pretty much earn money from "jobs". Yeesh!
In my campaign, that actually would have gotten them an award from the family that owned the crypt, grateful for the party not looting the dead.
I don't really have that problem. The party often get's rewards such as ancient bottles of wine, tapestries that are rare or created by famous people, etc.
The most cash they ever found was when they busted open a cashbox in the vaults of an assassin's guild they finally got in the position to destroy.
They were more interested in getting the house as thier own. Which they did by paying the back taxes.
Ancient sword? Who cares that it's not magic, they will look at the approximate date, look for a forging mark, look to see what it is made out of.
Mostly, they get thier loot off of bodies, and the pocket change, and the rest of the treasure is in such things as rare items, normal items made of rare material.
I guess it's the playing styles. I do have a player who looks dumbfounded and says: "That sucks!" when they beat a brace of wraiths in a tomb, fix the saracophugus, and then use "Speak with Dead" to let the dead know that their rest has been returned, then leave.
The he looks all surprised that the family that owned the tomb let it be known that the party was respectful to ancient families, and rewarded them with several family antiquities.
Wierd, eh?