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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1826156" data-attributes="member: 1331">Except at very low levels, I express all values in terms of gold pieces. If the PCs find a sack full of assorted money, I don't bother rolling for a random distribution, I just call it "coins worth 1500 gp."When random generation claims that monsters have silly amounts of coins to lug around, I usually convert it to other treasure appropriate to the monster. (Perhaps the devil has a fat diamond that he picked up last time he was called via gate; the calling wizard had planned to use it as a spell component.) Any halfway intelligent critter might keep jewelry or gems, because they're pretty even if you can't spend them.I almost never use wandering monsters, in the normal sense of random enemies that show up out of nowhere. I think that kind of encounter just slows down the game. A "wandering" monster in my game will be a pregenerated monster whose lair is nearby, whom I already have stats and treasure for. The party doesn't encounter three generic trolls that randomly sprout from the MM; they encounter Bert, Tom, and Bill, troll brothers whose lair is behind a large boulder 300' south of the path, and who have specific items of treasure concealed there.</blockquote>