Looting

[jasper]

the dragon heart in most stories gave the hero enter languages, or extra str.
Just the taste gave the power to understand the songs of birds.
Note most of stories on lang only give the ability to understand not speak it.

As to looting . Throw the emubrance at them. if you don't they will strip the dunegeon.
plus remember when you sold your magic / comic collection . How much did you get on the dollar when ou brought in back fulls.

 

[Tiberius]

Re: Re: Players get all wonky when dragon corpses are involved.

At one point in Samurai history, they took the heads of their foes. Those fallen foe gave their heads for it was more hunorable to be killed by a greated warrior. when I say gave, they perfumed and styled their hair!

Honor is one of those 'everyone has a option' views.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that practice, but he was supposed to be playing a Rokugani touching-dead-flesh-makes-you-an-eta-until-purified type. Also, taking the thing's head as a trophy is one thing, and understandable (in fact, it was done). Eating the heart, bathing in its blood, and complaining about a lack of special powers derived therefrom is another entirely.

-Tiberius

 

[2WS-Steve]

If the main issue is just the hassle of having to keep track of the incidental loot suggest that the players sell the "rights" to the incidental loot to some locals. After the PCs clear the dungeon the locals come in and clear out all the piddly stuff and the players get a substantial cut. This might also impel the players to be more thorough in their clearing so that the locals don't get eaten by monsters or fragged by traps that the players left behind.

What you then do is assign an incedental gp value to the dungeon and give the players that when the scenario ends. If they pick up incidental loot reduce the bulk reward by slightly less than the amount they took for themselves.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Re: Re: Re: Players get all wonky when dragon corpses are involved.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that practice, but he was supposed to be playing a Rokugani touching-dead-flesh-makes-you-an-eta-until-purified type. Also, taking the thing's head as a trophy is one thing, and understandable (in fact, it was done). Eating the heart, bathing in its blood, and complaining about a lack of special powers derived therefrom is another entirely.

-Tiberius

Should have made it improve his sex life.

 

[Rahkan]

That's Genius

That one about selling Salvage Rights to the Dungeon is amazing. It adds an interesting out-of-session wrap-up to each dungeon. Furthermore it could tie in with stronghold-building (and the amazing amount of money needed for that). It also opens the door to a few good beginning adventures in which the groups itself buys the salvage rights to a dungeon, only there bigger badder group forgot about the kobold janitors (or somesuch).

 

[hong]

Re: That's Genius

That one about selling Salvage Rights to the Dungeon is amazing.

Stop it, or you'll make mmadsen's head explode.

 

[2WS-Steve]

I like that one about the group being the janitors; you could use the map from one of those high level modules laying around the house (even an old 2e or 1e one) then simply trip all the traps and fill it with some wimpy critters. I bet my players would get a kick out of wandering through rooms and seeing the stripped corpses of trolls and umber hulks; then great big warning signs around the flame strike trap that the previous party couldn't disarm. It'd probably make for a pretty tense, but quite survivable, adventure.

 

[Black Omega]

Re: Re: Re: Players get all wonky when dragon corpses are involved.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that practice, but he was supposed to be playing a Rokugani touching-dead-flesh-makes-you-an-eta-until-purified type. Also, taking the thing's head as a trophy is one thing, and understandable (in fact, it was done). Eating the heart, bathing in its blood, and complaining about a lack of special powers derived therefrom is another entirely.

Keeping in mind, of course, that it's not like the samurai did all the preparations of the head himself. The washing and other preparations would be done by someone more suitable for handling such things. Given the market, it's pretty understandable why Rokugan left out the heads a throphies part. I've added it back to a degree.

But then, I'm not good at the whole 'loot everything in sight' thing. Even as a GM, though I'm working on that.

 

[2WS-Steve]

The whole "loot everything in sight" thing started with B0 for my players They used Tenser's Floating Disc to get the gold statue out of the dungeon and ever since then I'm certain that spell was created just for the loot-everything-in-sight crowd! Hey, we were 13 and D&D was ultra-kewl.

 

[mmadsen]

Re: Re: Re: Players get all wonky when dragon corpses are involved.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that practice, but he was supposed to be playing a Rokugani touching-dead-flesh-makes-you-an-eta-until-purified type.

The samurai of Rokugan are strict vegans?