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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4050143" data-attributes="member: 39593">The issue with treasure is it's potential use to grab hold of unbalancing magic items they aren't high enough level to be appropriate yet.  This is why the Wealth by Level charts were made.[h1]Now let me say I've discarded them.[/h1]In 3e the listed treasures are paltry, go back and check a 1e module and compare what got carted out at the end by the PCs in terms of wealth.  A CR8 monster has about enough gold to fill an evian bottle.  For me at least it doesn't fly, I like recapturing the 1e feel where PCs that slay a powerful dragon have to haul the loot out in caravans.  But this opens up the spectre of magic item inflation that can kill a campaign via the arms-race phenomena.  Where PCs that are nuke armed eggshells need to be faced by monsters so much above the level they should be facing just to account for the magic items a single unlucky roll likely means immediate death for the character.Instead I'll point to a resource that I've gotten endless use from, and it's totally free.  The Dungeonominicon.  Following its guidelines I altered the economy so that powerful magic items operated in a different economy fueled by planar currencies like souls, raw chaos, magic gems, etc.  That way I can pump out huge amounts of gold without destroying game balance because gold can only buy items lacking the power to break the balance of the game.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=32231" target="_blank">The Dungeonominicon</a></blockquote>

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