I had that exact shit happen to me. Got to a underwater treasure filled with a dragon’s horde. And long story short, we get attacked, go back to the surface, hurricane we havent saw before right on us, and the onky things we kept was that IF you managed a save you kept 1 fucking item. Nevermind me saying to the DM : I put as many rings and necklaces and bracers on me as I can.
If you are going to give your party the allures of a big treasure and they beat your protections, you fucking better not pussy out and let them keep it all.
Right? Would be easy enough for a DM to just improvise if they don’t want the players using everything. Big ticket items have inscriptions that terrify anyone they try to sell it to, which is itself a plot hook. Maybe it’s all cursed. Or they get arrested by the local authorities on suspicion of trafficking in stolen goods. Or even just have another adventuring party steal it from them somehow.
Depends on the abilities of the party, but snatching away their spoils after they get away sounds even more fun than not letting them take it in the first place.
How about this. If youre gonna give them the option to get that loot, dont take it away. Taking away loot you gave your players is the same shit as having a cool weapon in a videogame and never giving ammo for it. Assume what you give your players for fun and up the challenge instead of taking away fun
I’m all for it! Balancing by buffing rather than nerfing seems to be best, in most cases.
In Skies of Arcadia, you find the treasure trove of a legendary pirate that contains only a copper coin and a note saying “the real treasure is the friendship that led you here”. The heroes are naturally upset that they’re still broke. Luckily, it turns out the copper coin is recognisable as belonging to the legendary pirate, so it’s worth a significant sum by itself.
My campaign economy cannot sustain an influx of funds, do you realize what an economic catastrophe that would be? I’m doing you the favor, I am controlling loot inflation!
“You find 100,000 gp”
“Oh!”
“You can now afford a loaf of bread”
“Oh.”
I remember I was playing curse of strahd and the dm had the travel rations cost like 80gold apiece. We argued and haggled to no avail. So we started butchering everything we saw, didnt matters what it was or what race it got butchered.
When werewolves die they turn back into their human form so we started knocking them out and butchering them while they were still alive, just to get some food and to avoid being seen as cannibals
Riiiiight. So how about these dragon hordes ? Are dragons just F. A. Hayek’s representation in dnd ? Saving the economy from disaster ?
leave the dwarf in there. he can dig himself out, and doesn’t suffer full encumbrance even caring the entire dragon hoard single-handedly.
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