Insectoids & Loot

[Borin Drakkmurl]

This has been a thing for many years on arelith now, and one I have thought about often, even though I don't remember seeing it adressed anywhere.

For some reason, most giant bugs of all sorts, spiders of all sorts except bosses, and other such creatures, drop no loot at all.

Is this by design, oversight, or lack of ideas?


What caused me to bring this up was the fact that after some rough fighting with a few Brain Beetles, none of them had a single thing to pick up. On the spot I thought of a few things that this monster alone could've dropped, from useful general stuff, or materials that could be used for new craftable recipes. Why not a helmet with a one/day use of clarity, made from the skull/head of one of these bugs, for instance?

And what about the many sorts of spiders that one can find all over the module? Would it not be logical that some of them had a chance to drop some silk? Perhaps even some new manner of food item/recipe?

From the top of my head, I can only think of firebeetles as an insectoid monster that drops something, and even then it is barely useful. And perhaps Ankeghs, but most of those are rarer mobs, and so are the items they drop.

Would ideas and suggestions to adress this be welcome, once the suggestion board is open again?

[Itikar]

It would be nice for them to have some fitting loot, such as spidersilk for spiders, chitin and so on.