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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obergnom" data-source="post: 3756559" data-attributes="member: 7145">Oh well, the title might be 'a bit' exaggerated, but in escence it does...I really like DMing, I created tools to help me wing 10th level encounters, have a bunch of houserules to help my players who do not like complicated classes etc.BUT placing treasure in my campaign is so much work. I fully understand my players not liking to be 'under equipped' for many sessions in a row (they resently lost all their equipment, but that was because I turned a TPK into a capture situation)... have you ever tried to reequip 9th level characters? All by yourself? Without breaking the game world consistency? Yeah, does not work.While this might be an extreme situation, I find my self every 4 sessions in a similar situation... the players are close to leveling up, and somehow I forgot to hand out the treasure they are supposed to have. Or they just did not look where I placed it or what ever... I usually go and create some 'rich' encounters, but sometimes thats not possible. And now (level 9-10) it is just to much. I never memorized the MIC and I tend to wing nearly my whole sessions (Sandbox Style DMing) ... I even created a sheet full of pregenerated treasure (<a href="http://www.chimericdream.com/dnd/TGen/TGen.asp" target="_blank">MIC Treasure Generator</a>), but more often than not, that just seems to be weird stuff and out of place.So, what should I do to lessen this load and at the same time make my players happy? I fully understand they like to equip their chars with cool gimmicks... everyone in my group (including me) loves the MIC.2 Solutions I came up with: 1) Allways try to find a way to hand out treasure, usually go for money, only hand out magic items if there is a good reason.2) Have a bunch of pregen Tresures handy, and hand them out, no matter if it fits the encounter or not.Both solutions have certain drawbacks: 1) is very timeconsuming at the table (I hate shopping time) and forces every player to allway have a list of items he would like to have as well as me to allways have a Magic Supermarked available.2) Well, it is kind of 'Diablo-resque' and a Hound of Thrym 'dropping' a mithral full plate is kind of weird.As you see, I need help.</blockquote>

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