Quasqueton said:
How to split up party treasure. [A thread on the front page a few days ago asks about this.]
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For those of you with years of experience, what are some problems that you had with gaming years ago that you don't even think about now adays?
Q, you make interesting threads!
When we first started D&D there was something I'd now consider a major broblem distributing the treasure. Or to be honest, there was no distribution. It would go something like this:
DM: "Okay, the room has a bed, a chest and a desk ,wi.."
Player 1: "CHEST!!!!"
Player 2: "CH .. DESK!!!"
Player 3: "CHE .. DE .. Damn .. I check the bed then.."
Anything you found, YOU kept. We didn't divide it. It was just free for all shouting, all about the reflexes. It sucked if the desk was empty and there was 1000gp in the chest :\ If we killed a creature together, then we would divide, but only with those who managed to take at least a single HP off of it.
When gems were found their values were not listed, but a roll on the value table was made on the spot (the player got to roll). So once when a rarity happened and we divided a big pile of these generic gems, each player rolled for the value of his gems. So, somehow, someone got 100 50gp gems, someone got 100 10gp gems etc ..
You got to choose if you wanted xp or gp value of the gem. You didn't get both - I guess the gems vaporized if you chose the xp.