Treasure Parcels

[S'mon]

My Southlands campaign uses Inherents, the 9th level PCs don't routinely get a lot of treasure, but last session they looted the Cormarrin Family Vault, which held around 38,000gp worth of treasure. If they hadn't thought to look for the vault, and successfully got it open, they'd have got nothing.

 

[pemerton]

I use the DMG parcels as a farily strick guideline on total treasure per level, and a rough guideline on the spread of item levels (though I've just recently broken that, with the 15th lvl PCs acquiring a 20th level flying carpet).

A lot of the treasure in my game, however, is either distributed by patrons/gods rather than taken as loot, or levelling up of previous items (as per the guidelines in Adventurers Vault).