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Charlaquin

Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Doling out treasure is in Chapter 4: Creating Adventures.
So it is! That actually makes perfect sense for where to place that, I just assumed it would be in the treasure section. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!

EDIT: At a glance, it the treasure table looks less robust but more flexible. Works well for me, since I would likely have designed my own tables anyway. These will be super useful for telling me what a horde’s contents should be worth in total, which is probably the most important thing for my purposes! Quite happy with that.
 


So it is! That actually makes perfect sense for where to place that, I just assumed it would be in the treasure section. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!

EDIT: At a glance, it the treasure table looks less robust but more flexible. Works well for me, since I would likely have designed my own tables anyway. These will be super useful for telling me what a horde’s contents should be worth in total, which is probably the most important thing for my purposes! Quite happy with that.
Doing Treasure is pretty easy.

Lets say the party defeated a CR 7 Monster that likes Relics and has a Treasure Hoard. They find 3300 Gold Worth of Art Objects, and 2 Magic Items. One Common, and the other Rare. The Common item is a Ruby of the War Mage, and the Rare is a Periapt of Proof against Poison.

Took a tiny bit of rolling and got some stuff.
 



FitzTheRuke

Legend
No. The old free rules lacked a lot of stuff. These rules are pretty much everything but bastions, Greyhawk, and only a limited amount of magic items.
Many of WotC's business decisions (and the world's, to be dangerously close to speaking of things we're not supposed to on ENWorld) are things that I consider to be backward-thinking, but this is Good Business.

A lot of people (in particular at the top of businesses) think that giving away stuff for free is "bad for business".

They are wrong.

Now, there are correct and incorrect ways to do it (These Free Basic Rules are the Correct Way) but in general, when done correctly, it always returns more than it costs (which is very little).

I'd expand on how well it works, and how many areas of business (and life) that it works for, but I would probably cross the delicate line.
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend, he/him
Many of WotC's business decisions (and the world's, to be dangerously close to speaking of things we're not supposed to on ENWorld) are things that I consider to be backward-thinking, but this is Good Business.

A lot of people (in particular at the top of businesses) think that giving away stuff for free is "bad for business".

They are wrong.

Now, there are correct and incorrect ways to do it (These Free Basic Rules are the Correct Way) but in general, when done correctly, it always returns more than it costs (which is very little).

I'd expand on how well it works, and how many areas of business (and life) that it works for, but I would probably cross the delicate line.
I mean...the free rules don't have the rad art, a lot of people who jus tstwrt with this are likely to buy the book further along as an object in itself

What this really does is undercut the fan Wikis as a source of truth...which the designers did is a frustration for them.
 


R_J_K75

Legend
Very interesting. Did the old free rules have this much content? I certainly wasn't expecting this much of the DMG to be in the free rules.
No. The old free rules lacked a lot of stuff. These rules are pretty much everything but bastions, Greyhawk, and only a limited amount of magic items.
A lot of people (in particular at the top of businesses) think that giving away stuff for free is "bad for business".

They are wrong.
Whoever thought giving this stuff away for free was bad is absolutely wrong. Because of this I think my opinion on the revision has done a 180. One of my main conditions for trying the new revision was that it made the game easier to prep, run and play. Now I can't say for certain because I haven't read through the books yet, only leafed through both the PHB and the DMG but I think they have succeeded. The true test will be at the table, but hyperlinking free rules is way better than the 2014 version from what I remember of D&DB.
 

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