Treasure Generation

[Chrysoula]

Question: do folks integrate new items introduced in supplements into treasure tables, and if so, how? I'm looking for ideas or guidlines on doing such, in order to build a master list of treasure.

Thanks!

 

[Vaxalon]

I just use the online treasure generator, where I can pick which supplements to use.

 

[Crothian]

I pretty much hand pick items for treasure. I mostly use the DMG but I do use odd itrems from the supplements every now and then.

 

[Chrysoula]

Hmmm. Anybody know how the online treasure generator does it? This is Jamis Buck's software, I assume? I've poked at it but I'm trying to understand what goes into such a beast.

 

[Psion]

I just use the online treasure generator, where I can pick which supplements to use.

Ditto. Download Jamis' latest version of treasuregen... it has loads of supplements that you can pick from, including most of the splatbooks, Magic of Faerun, Relics & Rituals, Book of Eldritch Might, the FanCC book of treasures, and others!

Edit: Get it here.

 

[Chrysoula]

I have it.

I'm still curious how it's done. It seems like the sort of thing Wizards might have posted on their site, or in a Dragon, but my boyfriend jealously hoards his recent Dragon subscription and I thought I'd ask here before slogging through archives at Wizards.

I've seen how the Magic of Faerun includes a pre-roll-- 1-87, use the DMG, 88-100, use Magic of Faerun. But other items in smaller supplements seem to lack that kind of chart, and, well, it seems unlikely they'd all be meshed together.

If there are no guidelines, I can come up with my own, I suppose.

 

[Psion]

I've seen how the Magic of Faerun includes a pre-roll-- 1-87, use the DMG, 88-100, use Magic of Faerun. But other items in smaller supplements seem to lack that kind of chart, and, well, it seems unlikely they'd all be meshed together.

I used to do something similar back in 2e when I had all my homebrew items.

The pre-roll is a fairly straightforward method, as it keeps you from having to redesign the tables. Just decide which "special supplements" you would like to see most, and assign those a bigger percentage of the "pie" than the rest.

Say, for example, you have AEG's dragons, all the splatbooks, and the DMG. Say you have a dragon oriented game and you like the items in Dragons, but there aren't that many items in the splatbooks, and you decide that you want most (say 3/4) of the items to come from the DMG. Simple make a quick d12 table

1-9 DMG
10 Splatbooks (d10: 1-2 S&F 3-4 DotF 5-6 T&B 7-8 S&S 9-10 MotW)
11-12 "Dragons"

Or something like that.

 

[the Jester]

I have a big fat chart I've written out (on paper, natch). The first roll determines whether to use the dmg, oa, psiHB or "other" chart. The "other" chart includes all my secondary resources and homebrewed items. This also has potions, scrolls and wands of spells from other resources, so I can customize exactly which spells from (f'rinstance) Relics and Rituals I'm using.