Dungeon Level Analysis: Chart!

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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...

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.