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What were the Treasure Types and what did they mean?
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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8662953" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>There's no <strong>easy</strong> translation, because each row on the treasure table was completely its own thing. It looked something like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]250896[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So, treasure type D meant there was a 10% chance of 1d8x1000 cp, 15% chance of 1d12x1000 sp, 15% chance of 1d8x1000 ep, and a 50% chance of 1d6x1000 gp. You also had a 30% chance of 1d10 gems (to be rolled separately), 25% for 1d6 pieces of jewelry (ditto), and 15% chance of 1 potion + 2 other magic items.</p><p></p><p>There's little easily discernible logic to these tables, but I'm sure they made sense to Gygax because they definitely lean in different directions. I found a reference somewhere that type D was meant for dwarves (which is why they have a fairly high chance of gold), for example, but that's not explained anywhere that I know of. But the only systematic thing I remember is that the higher letters were for individual treasure and the lower for the collected treasure of a monster lair. In 2e, this was generally represented with individual treasures in parentheses. For example, goblins had treasure type "C (K)" meaning that a goblin lair/tribe would have treasure type C collectively (usually held by the chief or in a safe place), and each individual goblin would have treasure type K.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't able to find an authentic source for the treasure tables in full, but as Malmuria mentioned there are automated tools for it online.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8662953, member: 907"] There's no [B]easy[/B] translation, because each row on the treasure table was completely its own thing. It looked something like this: [ATTACH type="full"]250896[/ATTACH] So, treasure type D meant there was a 10% chance of 1d8x1000 cp, 15% chance of 1d12x1000 sp, 15% chance of 1d8x1000 ep, and a 50% chance of 1d6x1000 gp. You also had a 30% chance of 1d10 gems (to be rolled separately), 25% for 1d6 pieces of jewelry (ditto), and 15% chance of 1 potion + 2 other magic items. There's little easily discernible logic to these tables, but I'm sure they made sense to Gygax because they definitely lean in different directions. I found a reference somewhere that type D was meant for dwarves (which is why they have a fairly high chance of gold), for example, but that's not explained anywhere that I know of. But the only systematic thing I remember is that the higher letters were for individual treasure and the lower for the collected treasure of a monster lair. In 2e, this was generally represented with individual treasures in parentheses. For example, goblins had treasure type "C (K)" meaning that a goblin lair/tribe would have treasure type C collectively (usually held by the chief or in a safe place), and each individual goblin would have treasure type K. I wasn't able to find an authentic source for the treasure tables in full, but as Malmuria mentioned there are automated tools for it online. [/QUOTE]
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