01-22-2019, 12:41 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Show me the money
The text and tables in the rulebook show an average of 10 XP and $20 per encounter.
You can easily double the direct treasure payout by collecting: http://www.hcobb.com/tft/magical_ingredients.html Given that instant healing is $150 per point and lengthy healing is $7 per point how exactly are the players expected to save up enough to get anything? Given that a hero can make $100 in a safe job, why go In the Labyrinth?
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01-22-2019, 12:53 PM | #2 | |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland
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Re: Show me the money
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01-22-2019, 03:22 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland
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Re: Show me the money
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01-22-2019, 05:46 PM | #5 | |||
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Show me the money
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Seems to me that: 1) New ITL gives zero mechanical XP for encounters, just GM discretion XP. So XP per encounter is undefined in new ITL. 2) The encounter tables given in ITL are not some wonderful perfect thing to use all the time. They're just examples of what a table might look like in general. In practice (as I quickly found by using them for a long time back circa 1980), they're rather random and weird in what you'll tend to get from them how often. 3) The ITL random encounter tables mostly do not specify how much value the people you encounter have on them. Which brings me to: Quote:
If so, yes, it's not generally very much, unless you can get the human brains fresh to the Wizard's Guild for $200 each - in which case, if you can pull that off, there's the money. But really, the money in our experience was often in looting the groups of hostile humanoids. Unless they're impoverished, they probably have enough coin to be travelling (buying food and lodging) plus gear and/or animals and since there are few wire transfer services, are often carrying some wealth. Quote:
Often there was some sort of reason to be going into a "Labyrinth" or other adventure destination that involved some sort of money and/or patron arrangement. And, powerful people at adventure destinations tended to have good gear and some valuables, maybe even some magic stuff. |
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01-22-2019, 09:06 PM | #6 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Show me the money
$50 per human eye, too, so that's $300 in potential organ harvest per human (as well as whatever you can loot from them), also the most common thing on most encounter tables.
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04-09-2019, 12:18 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: 'Straya (big island in the pacific)
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Re: Show me the money
HA organ salvage, hilarious! .. how does one preserve organs all the way to town when one is 2 weeks in the bush? I guess wizards maybe dont need em quite as fresh as guys trying to do a transplant .. a bag of bloody human components is bound to attract wolves, or worse
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