A Land Far Away

I'm looking into trying to get a rudimentary Rewards system in place for the upcoming ACR update- seems the opinions on whether mobs should drop their weapons/ammunition have been mixed so far.

Do we have nonmagical, mundane weapons we could release as part of ABR Items? Is there a need for ABR versions of these, or should we just award from the standard palette? I'd expect the nonmagical end of things to be less whacked-out, but are there things we need that the standard (non-ABR) items would lack?

Do we want some non-weapon mundane items for random treasure tables? Handcarved goblets, crude stone statuettes, bone necklaces, smelly dried animal-toe totems? Just want to see what folks are thinking of in this respect. Seems all the discussion of late has put most spawn drops in the "below +1" range, so the higher-end toolsetting we've done isn't really applicable to a basic loot table.

For low level loot to be effective, there's got to be an absolute ton of it. Hence use the default low level loot.

What gets included is probably a discussion for Standards, but I'd think we need 2 main categories:

- Mundane (all non-magic weapons & armor, trinkets, jewels, gems)
- Misc Magic (potions, scrolls, bracers, belts etc)

Then for each of those categories we make a set of stores for all CRs from 1/4 to 5.

Then use a system like this one: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Sc ... il&id=2569
which allows you to set variables on mobs which draws treasure from the stores, placed in a remote location. Currently the functions that govern drawing items randomly from remote stores is broken, but they are fixing it in 1.07.

Well, that's how I'd do it.

We're waiting on a TLK fix for masterwork and magical items and for anything costing less than 1 gp.