| Decrayer |
I'm currently learning and writing a small Javascript in order to create random treasures to support improvising. I's based on the rules and tables of Ultimate Equipment Appendix 1:Treasure Generator (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/appendix.html#treasur e-generator). The reason I write it is, that I'm not happy with the one that can be found at: http://pathfinder-treasure-generator.com.
However, I made a couple of questions and observations I would like to ask and share. Maybe someone has a solution or idea for them:
1) Treasure Budget.
In step 1, it says, I should determine the overall challenge rating of the encounter and then look into the Treasure Values per Encounter to get the base value for such an encounter. This doesn't make sense to me, because the base value that I get has no connection to the challenge rating.
So when I take a look into the gamemastering chapter (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/gamemastering.html) i find:
"Easy encounters should award treasure one level lower than the PCs' average level. Challenging, hard, and epic encounters should award treasure one, two, or three levels higher than the PCs' average level, respectively."
easy = APL -1 = CR
normal = APL = CR
challenging = APL +1 = CR
hard = APL +2 = CR
epic = APL +3 = CR
So we see, the level adjustment is equal to CR-APL (example: APL=3, CR=6, adjustment = +3).
Okay, so if we put this into a formula:
Treasure level = APL + (CR - APL) = CR.
ups... so the base treasure value is independend from the APL? Why don't they say that directly? Why so complicated? Or did I miss something? (of course, it doesn't depend solely on the CR, some modifiers for low/high magic worlds and monster types are applied afterwards, but the base is only depending on CR).
2) Step 3: Choose treasure types. It leaves it open to the GM to choose from the ones determined by the type of monster contained in the challenge.
What would you expect a generator to do? Ask which type depending on the creatures you used? Choose one randomly?
regards,
Decrayer