My blog, Bat in the Attic, has been going on for a while and I have posted a bunch of files that people have found useful. So I organized it and made a new on my blog.
Stuff in the Attic. (http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/p/stuff-in-attic.html)
It's been a while but looking at the monsters-by-treasure-type, I wonder what the heck they were thinking. Liches and Troglodytes are the same type, so are Demon Princes and Ants.
Do you multiply by hit dice or something?
Thanks, that's a great resource all in one spot.
Quote from: fuseboy;691753It's been a while but looking at the monsters-by-treasure-type, I wonder what the heck they were thinking. Liches and Troglodytes are the same type, so are Demon Princes and Ants.
Do you multiply by hit dice or something?
Look at these two posts
Treasure Types Part 1 (http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2012/08/delving-into-ad-types-part-i.html)
Treasure Types Part 2 (http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2012/08/delving-into-ad-treasure-types-part-ii.html)
I don't know what was up with the A treasure type and Troglodytes. A is a high value Treasure Type. But apparently Locathah and Troglodytes have lucrative lairs. Locathah didn't have a Treasure type in OD&D but were treated as nomads so probably that why they wound up in A. Trogs first appeared in AD&D. Giant Squids were assigned A in OD&D Blackmoor as well Giant Octopi and similar creatures. So it was either Arneson or Kask, the editor, that did that.
As for Ants and Demon Princes, all it means is that they both collect Gems and potions in their respective lairs. The Treasure type J and higher are often found in combination with a A to I type which roughly came from OD&D.
My posts looks at this in detail. OD&D made more sense in my opinion. Although I can see the purpose of the higher treasure types in AD&D to make custom setups by combining two more types.