treasure confusion

[fl8m]

a friend brought this up to me soon after we picked up Savage Species.

if i equip a 20ecl creature with npc gear he gets something like 220,000 gp worth of stuff

but a cr 20 average treasure is only 70,000 gp

why the big difference? even something with double standard treasure still ends up far short of the npc gear value


am i missing something?

 

[AuraSeer]

This is a known bug in the wealth system. A classed NPC has far more wealth than is normal for his CR. If the PCs fight a steady diet of NPCs, they will soon amass far more wealth than is standard.

The PC wealth system assumes that some encounters are with relatively wealthy NPCs, and others are with monsters that collect no treasure, so it all averages out eventually.