KotS treasure

[Nikosandros]

OK, so I'm making very slow progress with the two groups that I'm running... we are still at the beginning of the first dungeon level...

I haven't made a list of all the treasures available in the adventure, but I have the impression that PC earn less stuff that what they are supposed to according to the DMG. Is this actually the case?

 

[teach]

I thought this was true too, but I went through and matched it up to the treasure bundles at each level (since I wanted to change the items so they actually matched up with what my players wanted) and it does match up (at least the items, i didn't look to closely at the gold, but there are a few big ticket items that should balance things out). If you have 6 or more players though, you should look in the DMG for guidelines for adding more loot, because the adventure is balanced for 5, and 6 players would definitely be earning less loot.

 

[Bumamgar]

It matches the quantity, but is a bit low on the levels (as is H2)...

 

[Nikosandros]

It matches the quantity, but is a bit low on the levels (as is H2)...

Well, the level of the items is very important. You wouldn't want a 5th level party, armed just with a bunch of 1st and 2nd level items...

Hopefully, I'll find the time to make a full list for myself. So far, I'm pretty sure that there isn't enough loot, but maybe this is compensated later in the adventure.

 

[MrMyth]

Having played through H1 and H2, I definitely noticed that it felt like treasure was rather light. I'm preparing to run H3, and looked through it, and it was way behind on bundles (having basically 4 levels worth of xp, but only 3 levels worth of bundles.)

 

[Dogreboy]

treasure lite?

Yeah we are currently nearing the end of H2 and it pretty much is lite on treasure. For a 5 person party they are seeming to make the challenges a mite bit on the high side and giving rewards on the low side. The seem to have the singular high end items of appripriate strength but have too few of them.

As well I am not sure if this is how 4rth is going but throwing in high level non-combat items sorta blows(hey heres this L5 bag of holding have a nice time fighting the L8 elite at the end with no magic weapon Mr 3rd level Cleric).

This is further augmented as H1 has a some errors in stat blocks unless these errors are meant to be there(I thought due to the mod being out during playtesting a few creeped in). Luckily for us we had a TPK in H2 so the judge allowed for us to come in later with appropriate starting equipment.

 

[Nail]

Luckily for us we had a TPK in H2 so the judge allowed for us to come in later with appropriate starting equipment.

Huh.

That's a use of the word "luckily" that I wouldn't have thought of.....

 

[Nail]

Hopefully, I'll find the time to make a full list for myself. So far, I'm pretty sure that there isn't enough loot, but maybe this is compensated later in the adventure.

I have the full list, if you are interested. I also have all of the magic items from KotS as printed "cards", so I can physically hand them to the players - I could give you that file (pdf) as well.

 

[Nikosandros]

I have the full list, if you are interested. I also have all of the magic items from KotS as printed "cards", so I can physically hand them to the players - I could give you that file (pdf) as well.

Thanks! I could certainly use those...

nikosandros (at) gmail (dot) com

 

[Milambus]

I would like the PDF as well.

bigbearfozy (at) yahoo (dot) com