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If your D and D characters don't have
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enough gold, it's probably because
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you're not using the random treasure
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tables like you're supposed to be. The
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Dungeon Master's Guide in both the 2014
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and 20 of 24 rules assumes that players
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are going to get treasure at some kind
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of regular increment, that every
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encounter is going to have some amount
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of treasure from it in some form. Either
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you just pick the pockets of whatever
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you defeated, or somebody pays you for
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helping them or something like that.
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Most of those encounters, the only
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treasure you're going to get is
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essentially pocket change. But those
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small amounts of gold add up over time.
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And that covers things like equipment,
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rations, spell components, small things
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like that. The majority of your treasure
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is going to come from treasure hordes,
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which you're supposed to get a fixed
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number of treasure hordes during each
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gameplay tier. And treasure hordes are
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where you're going to find magic items.
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So, if you look in the random treasure
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tables in the dungeon masters guide, you
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can see like regular treasure and then
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hoorde treasure. and the treasure hordes
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have uh like guidelines on what tables
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to roll on, etc. I dug into this in a
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ton of detail on rpgbot.net in our
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practical guide to campaign planning.
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So, look for that. It it has an accurate
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wealth by level curve for the 2014 rules
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and also has a table which will help you
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plan out when and at what levels your
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players should be getting treasure
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hordes. So, if you follow that
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structure, like that is based on reverse
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engineering the random treasure tables
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in the 2014 DMG. So, that will give all
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of your players as much gold as the game
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expects them to have and the magic items
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that they're expected to get at any
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given time. Um, you can still obviously
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roll on the random treasure tables and
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you'll come out roughly okay. Um, that's
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probably also more fun than having to
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manually populate what is functionally a
