Increase Minimum Gold in Chests
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:59 am
We've all done it. You go through a dungeon, come across a loot chest, perhaps you have your pixie pocket rogue or, better, brought along a real rogue. You spring the lock, disarm the trap aaaand...
80gp...
After you've been fighting aboleths, mummies, insert-high-lvl-spawn-here.
Needless to say, its incredibly disappointing when you go through all that trouble going through a dungeon and getting into a chest, to find what is in it barely pays for mere two mediocre healing kits. Its also a morale blow for rogues, who frequently feel superfluous because chests are almost never worth the time to open, despite being built in such a way as to encourage people to play rogues(trap+lock combo).
As an anectote to prove my point. I recently accompanied a party into aboleth zone(my favorite dungeon). The dungeon beneath a dungeon. Four floors down, in a lvl 16 dungeon with a party of five, we came across a chest room. We had been getting about 200+ gold from each aboleth we killed. We popped open a trapped chest... found 80 gold. You know what 80/5 makes for the purpose of loot splitting? 16 gold apiece. No one was excited to find that chest because we knew it wouldn't hold anything worthwhile in it(unless it somehow(unlikely, but it does happen) had a decent item), and no one was excited(all disappointed instead) when we heard the virdict from our rogue. This happens literally every single time I ever see a chest get opened in any dungeon(unless the party consists of people under lvl 8, then we can actually use what we find.)
Please increase the amount of gold you can find in a chest by 3-4x at least. Going through a high level dungeon and finding less gold in a dangerously trapped chest than the weakest monster in said dungeon is holding in its pocket is not only silly, but also demoralizing. The loot matrix is bad enough with its large quantity of junk collection of straight-to-the-vendor +1 descriptionless weapons(at least with weapons though its the equivalent of 250gp).
Please make chests worth bothering with. We'll all appreciate it, especially our already rare pure or majority-build rogues.
80gp...
After you've been fighting aboleths, mummies, insert-high-lvl-spawn-here.
Needless to say, its incredibly disappointing when you go through all that trouble going through a dungeon and getting into a chest, to find what is in it barely pays for mere two mediocre healing kits. Its also a morale blow for rogues, who frequently feel superfluous because chests are almost never worth the time to open, despite being built in such a way as to encourage people to play rogues(trap+lock combo).
As an anectote to prove my point. I recently accompanied a party into aboleth zone(my favorite dungeon). The dungeon beneath a dungeon. Four floors down, in a lvl 16 dungeon with a party of five, we came across a chest room. We had been getting about 200+ gold from each aboleth we killed. We popped open a trapped chest... found 80 gold. You know what 80/5 makes for the purpose of loot splitting? 16 gold apiece. No one was excited to find that chest because we knew it wouldn't hold anything worthwhile in it(unless it somehow(unlikely, but it does happen) had a decent item), and no one was excited(all disappointed instead) when we heard the virdict from our rogue. This happens literally every single time I ever see a chest get opened in any dungeon(unless the party consists of people under lvl 8, then we can actually use what we find.)
Please increase the amount of gold you can find in a chest by 3-4x at least. Going through a high level dungeon and finding less gold in a dangerously trapped chest than the weakest monster in said dungeon is holding in its pocket is not only silly, but also demoralizing. The loot matrix is bad enough with its large quantity of junk collection of straight-to-the-vendor +1 descriptionless weapons(at least with weapons though its the equivalent of 250gp).
Please make chests worth bothering with. We'll all appreciate it, especially our already rare pure or majority-build rogues.