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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sylvaroth" data-source="post: 4727403" data-attributes="member: 20295">Care to elaborate a bit about the area-part?Thank you very much for your kind words.As for, as you call it, the monsters residuum: Instead of orienting your calculations by the magic item value of the treasure parcels of a level you could also use the magic threshold as a guideline for the amount of residuum you can steal from a monster. I tried something like that before so let me explain:Method II: Residuum ValueTake tables MONSTER MAGIC THRESHOLD, DMG, p. 174 and MAGIC ITEM PRICES, PHB, p. 223 as a reference.Monsters of up to level 5 don't have a magic threshold (or at least a magic threshold of +0), starting at level 6 and every five levels after that they gain +1 to their threshold (+1 at lvl6, +2 at lvl11, +3 at lvl16, aso.).Now let us assume that the threshold value equals the sale price of a magic weapon of the same enhancement value (e.g a lvl6 monster = Magic weapon +1).Going by that premise a level 11 monster contains residuum equal to that of a magic weapon of its level -5 (360 gp).Coincidentally that is exactly 1/10 of the monetary treasure of all level 6 encounters (DMG, p. 126).Now you can decide to either give all monsters within the specific threshold level a flat residdum value (lvl6-10 = 360gp, lvl 11-15 = 1,800 gp, lvl 16-20 = 9,000 gp, etc.) or you could just give them 1/10 of the levels total monetary treasure value resp. the sale price of a magic item 5 levels below that of the monster.I'd prefer the latter method, because this way there is a difference (talking about residuum) between killing a lvl6 and a lvl10 monster.The residuum values you get from this method are most of the time a little bit higher than the values you get from Method I.</blockquote>

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