Swords Against Madness - Episode 19: Lamentations
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Swords Against Madness - Episode 19: Lamentations

22:33 May 31, 2025
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Miria & Edryk return to Nar with the All-Knowing and another pile of treasure. The All-Knowing reveals a path forward, but will the people of Nar trust Miria enough to risk more lives to help her? Apologies for the delay! This episode is coming out 1 week late due to extreme illness. In this Episode, Miria & Edryk both return safely to the village of Nar with a pile of treasure, enough for them both to gain a level. I am borrowing the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons method of handling levelling up for Magic-users: PCs can pick one spell from the PHB they would like to know and roll their INT-based chance to learn a spell. If they do not learn that one, they cannot try it again until they gain a level. We have a fairly substantial treasure hoard this level, and so I wanted to talk about my treasure generation method. Swords & Wizardry does treasure generation by taking the total XP value of monsters that were guarding the treasure and multiplying it by a base 1d3+1. With 1gp = 1xp for character growth, this means that on average gold will make up 50-75% of your experience gains, which is about the same ratio as using the original treasure types system. Once you have that base value, it directs you to a d4 table that will tell you how many coins, gems & jewels, & magic items you generate from a n
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