Here's the breakdown of treasure per encounter/per unguarded treasure, assuming that perfect situation I posited yesterday of a dungeon with 60 encounter areas per level, stocked randomly with the Moldvay/Mentzer method, and containing just enough treasure to get a party of 5 Fighters up a level assuming they get 20% XP from monsters.
Yeah, never gonna happen, but it's interesting to see what sorts of treasures this would require!
Now let's see if I can get this chart to format right in Blogger...
Yeah, never gonna happen, but it's interesting to see what sorts of treasures this would require!
Now let's see if I can get this chart to format right in Blogger...
Level
|
Class XP
|
Party XP
|
Unguarded
|
Total
|
1
|
2000
|
10,000
|
126gp
|
756gp
|
2
|
2000
|
10,000
|
492gp
|
2952gp
|
3
|
4000
|
20,000
|
492gp
|
2952gp
|
4
|
8000
|
40,000
|
1698gp
|
10,188gp
|
5
|
16,000
|
80,000
|
1698gp
|
10,188gp
|
6
|
32,000
|
160,000
|
3638gp
|
21,828gp
|
7
|
56,000
|
280,000
|
3638gp
|
21,828gp
|
8
|
120,000
|
600,000
|
7122gp
|
42,732gp
|
9
|
120,000
|
600,000
|
7122gp
|
42,732gp
|
10
|
120,000
|
600,000
|
7122gp
|
42,732gp
|
Level
|
Standard
|
Total
|
Grand Total
|
1
|
725gp
|
7244gp
|
8000gp
|
2
|
505gp
|
5048gp
|
8000gp
|
3
|
1305gp
|
13,048gp
|
16,000gp
|
4
|
2181gp
|
21,812gp
|
32,000gp
|
5
|
5381gp
|
53,812gp
|
64,000gp
|
6
|
10,617gp
|
106,172gp
|
128,000gp
|
7
|
20,217gp
|
202,172gp
|
224,000gp
|
8
|
43,727gp
|
437,268gp
|
480,000gp
|
9
|
43,727gp
|
437,268gp
|
480,000gp
|
10
|
43,727gp
|
437,268gp
|
480,000gp
|
Of course, in any sane megadungeon where the goal is to allow the PCs to be able to adventure only at that site for their entire career, you'd want either a lot more encounter areas, or a lot more treasure per encounter to give a fudge factor of room for character deaths, henchmen XP, and of course the biggest fact that the PCs will NOT explore absolutely everything and find every last copper piece there is to find.
To make sure all of that is covered, I'd think having at least double, maybe triple the amounts here would be necessary. Anyway, it's interesting to see the numbers, at least.
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