Comments on: How Big is that Treasure Hoard?

By: drow

drow — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:48:37 +0000

now we need The MegaOrc Project. =)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:07:20 +0000

I definitely wish I’d known about this site when I was writing my chunk of MoATT — I’m sure I was guilty of turning in at least one “massive” hoard that would actually have fit in a duffel bag.

I’m glad folks are enjoying this link. I had fun looking through the site, and I love visualizations like this.

By: ScottM

ScottM — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:22:37 +0000

Cassandra’s thought was exactly mine– wow, Dragons hoards are even larger than I thought, since they support a whole dragon.

A very useful and fun site. Thanks.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:08:14 +0000

Great model, Martin! That would have been really helpful when we were working on The Mother of All Treasure Tables. Writers kept sending things in like “Before you, you see an enormous pile of coins…” and then they would give a number that, when piled up, was only about a foot high. It was still a lot of money for a medieval fantasy game, but physically was not as impressive as everyone thought. There is one treasure with a pile a few feet high, but it took millions of coins to make it that way. That gives a perspective on the amount of treasure of Smaug, the dragon in “The Hobbit.” A pile of coins big enough for a dragon to lie on must be wealth collected through generations.

By: John Arcadian

John Arcadian — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:12:01 +0000

That’s just nifty. I’m using that next time a player says, “Sure I could carry that much.”