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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magic Rub" data-source="post: 113085" data-attributes="member: 3619">I agree with BluWolf & the others. Make the treasure fits the setting. Your players generally don't know the history of the "Orcish war party", you do. Take some time to explain it to yourself. Also you can further tailor this by including the idea that, as was said, these are Orc or Goblin tribes that don't have access to large cities. Therefore they might not even have the knowledge of such fancy things as Potions of Bull's Strength, & even if they did, such a thing would be an incredibly valued possession. Worth far more to them then the standard market price. They might very well waste there gold on seemingly simple things such as "magical pink rock of power on a stick.". Something like this would have been purchased because the Orc or Goblin (whatever) was told it held incredible power. All the wile it's nothing more then a fancy looking placebo, worthless to the real world, but priceless to the Orc. Now I don't suggest you do this with every encounter but occasionally it lends some nice depth, and a possible stumbling block for your Player. It's even a good way to remove some gold from an overly wealthy party, as they'll surely have it identified if you play it up right. I've done it as a DM & it works. ya I'm done now.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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