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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 4588884" data-attributes="member: 553">Lol... never underestimate player creativity. I think it was at the end of one of the Giants adventures that my party was bound and determined to haul off every single copper piece at the end. Stacked, levitating spell casters with rings of Tenser's Floating Disks around them teleported the whole shebang outta there. We might have used a couple of other spells too, but we did it.Otherwise, just take the higher value coins and one still came away with quite a bit.For the most part, my own personal recollection from adventures I've read/run was pretty much the same.  1E didn't give me the impression that there was some standard for how much treasure was suppose to be difficult to find. Plus, modules were written by a variety of different authors, who probably did their treasure placement differently. If there was suppose to be a standard regarding how much treasure should be put behind secret doors or in devilishly designed hidden compartments, don't you think the 1E DMG would have had some indication on what that percentage would have been so DMs could place treasure accordingly in their own adventures? Were the early edition rules really that opaque that we have to do a thorough statistical analysis of these published adventures to reveal the Word of Gygax, like some get-rich-quick Bible Code of D&D? Yeah, you'll probably find a pattern, but in all likelihood it's meaningless in and of itself.IIRC, there was pretty much just treasure type by monster to roll up and then left to the DM to decide where to place it. That was about it. This lack of guidance about treasure placement was what often lead to Monty Haul campaigns in games of yore.</blockquote>

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