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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

DH Boggs on Treasure Placement & Character Advancement

D.H. Boggs has an interesting post on treasure placement in OD&D and Dave Arneson's campaigns.

Character Growth and Dungeon Stocking

I tend to agree with him on a point I first came across on OSR blogs: Treasure Type for Wilderness only. Seems unlikely to me, and it's not how we played it anyway, rightly or wrongly, back in in the early to mid 80s.

I'm a big fan of systems for treasure placement. I liked AD&D's system of specific rolls for specific types, but I liked Rolemaster's system of rolls for total value of treasure a lot more. Guess which more heavily influenced my own system? A system which, hopefully, will get to see the light of official publication some day.

3 comments:

  1. "A system which, hopefully, will get to see the light of official publication some day."

    What is holding you back?

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    1. I have to make sure I have a good place for it, and that I'll be paid for that book. I mean I could post it for free, but I vastly prefer to get paid for my words and have them get some official status.

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    2. If it's too small for SJG, have you tried hitting up Doug and getting space (and pay) in a Nordlond book?

      I mean, I'm sure he's got tons of ideas and books on the burner... but...

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