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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bardolph" data-source="post: 5103711" data-attributes="member: 2304">Ever notice that some players like to take trophies from their kills?For example, the skin of a cave bear, the tooth of a dragon, the beak from an owlbear, the face of a doppleganger, the spinner glands from a giant spider,  etc etc etc.I happen to be one of these players (on the rare occasions that I'm not behind the DM screen). Somehow, an troll's head is much more meaningful to me as a trophy than a pile of gold pieces.I was thinking, why not incorporate this into the treasure parcel system? Here's how it could work:If a character takes an unusual interest in a kill and harvests a body part from it as a trophy, simply pick a treasure parcel, figure out its value in gold pieces, and that's its "trophy value."And here's where it gets fun: a trophy that gets incorporated into a magic item created by the "Create Magic Item" ritual can count the entire "trophy value" as residuum!EXAMPLE: a first level party defeats a Cave Bear, and decides to carefully skin its hide as a trophy. The DM determines that this encounter will yield Parcel #3 (Magic Item, Level 3). So rather than placing a level 3 magic item somewhere in the lair, the DM decides that the cave bear hide has a "trophy value" of 680 gp.The PCs can decide to make a very nice cave bear skin rug that could sell for 680 gp as an art object, or even better, use it as 680 gp worth of residuum to make a suit of Bloodcut Hide Armor +1. You know what I'm talking about -- one of those numbers where the shoulder pads are covered in fur and the head of the bear rests over your head like a badass barbarian head piece...Either way, the DM checks off the appropriate treasure parcel from the list, and proceeds as normal.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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