Division of Treasure

[Nifft]

My group goes Marxist, too -- "to each according to his need" and all that. However, there are two Wizards. So we get a little Stalinism in there too.

Cheers, -- N

 

[billd91]

My group goes Marxist, too -- "to each according to his need" and all that. However, there are two Wizards. So we get a little Stalinism in there too.

Cheers, -- N

What? The NKVD takes one of the wizards off to Siberia for a beating and penal servitude?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

How does your party/players handle dispensing found magical treasure. The group I DM for seems to be very socialist in their approach. They give the item to the PC that needs it the most, and ignore its value when it comes time to split up shares of treasure. Personally I think its unrealistic.

I've hear some other variants. Like rolling for first picks, or half-value buying the items out of your share of treasure. I'd like to hear how other EN worlders deal with their treasure shares.

All of the above. Different styles at different times. I prefer the 'who needs it most?' style, and don't see anything unrealistic about it. (These are people you are trusting your [character's] life to. The better job they can do of it, the better off you all are!)

 

[Clueless]

But Clueless, what if someone's playing a Fated?

Rule 0 is "GM's game GM's rule..."
Rule 1 is "All these people at the table are human too and should be respected as such."

Aka - if they can keep it solely in character - bully for them and go for it. But if they can't... it's ugly, and someone somewhere crossed the line from roleplaying their character to acting the jerk. Hence...

I've seen some groups that had that sort of thing going on and were good with it, but as a GM when I see that happen it's something I watch for signs of out-of-game strain.

 

[Nifft]

penal servitude?

heh heh heh, he said "penal servitude". heh heh heh.

Shut up, Beavis.

-- N

 

[billd91]

heh heh heh, he said "penal servitude". heh heh heh.

Shut up, Beavis.

-- N

Back when I was on Bataan, we could make jokes about genitalia in half the time it took you jokers to make a lame pun.

 

[Harmon]

We gave up on the math of it all. It boils down to this- the Fighter needs a +more sword and one comes up, we give it to him, his old one goes into the loot and is sold. Sometimes he can keep it as a spare, but seldom is that.

Arcane spell casters get the scrolls and wands, etc without complaint, it just goes to them.

Divine scrolls and wands is the same.

Potions- given out, spreading the wealth.

Coins, gems, jewels, etc - divided to the mass of (N)PCs as equal shares, the group that has homes gets an extra share to give to their home.

No one in our group is so greedy or stupid to screw over the others by trying to horde a few extra swords or whatever, the groups are pretty much of the mind that "what helps my team mate, helps me."


We did at one time hold a +2 Short Sword over our 2nd lvl Rogues head, oh, she got to use it, but got nothing in the line of loot from group splits. She started stealing from the group and sneaking off to loot rooms alone. Pissed off one Player, I understood, and my character was helping her do it. She was never caught, cause two Players stood up tot eh third and got her an equal share again.

 

[Drowbane]

Need before greed.

...The value of an item is irrelevant. It should go to the person who needs it most. Any excess or unwanted items gets sold and the cash goes into a party fund.

QFT

 

[Phlebas]

In the three games we play, three methods

1) Where I Dm - Cash divided pretty equally, occasional arguments (IC) over distribution of magical treasure (prob because its a low magic setting...). They have agreed to roll dice (In game) to decide on treasure distribution but the gambling cleric used his luck ability and the rogue palmed his dice so they haven't done that recently. Only OoC issue came up when one player claimed she was being stiffed by the group, but after finding some e-mails she hadn't read with treasure distributions it all calmed down. The last disagreement ended up with various players 'borrowing' items from the party for their use and noones decided how to resolve it yet.

2) Cauldron - My wizard is set up as party mapper, book keeper and party fund holder - he uses arcane mathemematical formulae to divide the treasure in ways he explains is fair (basically taking the resale value of the items from their share), and nobody else is arguing because they don't want the hassle. He's CG so he's not skimming them too much....

3) Eberron - We're set up as a business so its all pretty much communal and according to need.

whats best? they all show up different ways of parties working together so I'm happy with them all (though if i was playing IMC i'd probably try to reach a better arrangement than the group currently has...)

 

[rossik]

here, the party do the same as the OP.

but now, in my new campaign, i will use the "roll d20, the higher pick firts", for magical itens.

the money, i will have to see..ehehe