Treasure Thread

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I wonder what might be up with this creepy little bastard. When I stumbled across it, I thought it would make for a great cursed item... But I'm not sure what to have it do.

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Gold Legos.

I don't really think there has to be more to it than that. Sounds like a toy for royalty... or a baby dragon.

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Probably going to post a disproportionate amount of jewelry... Maybe it's just me, but I seem to have a much easier time finding those than interesting objects in general.

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And I find myself scrolling through all these pictures of owls... Should have probably sorted out this stuff first.

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I'd think clothing would count too, if it was interesting enough. After all, you can loot it, sell it, and sometimes it has various magical effects. Or it can just make for a cool flavor object.

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>>44122206

Why thank you! I think?

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Found this pic recently - on /tg/, in fact. But I feel that it would be a good addition to the thread.

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Squinting at tiny, tiny preview images is suffering. If only I weren't so lazy, and actually bothered to change the size of them

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I regret not having some of these in a larger size. I'm not sure, but I think this is one of those I searched for and failed.

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Little hand mirror. I'll post the front if anyone wants it, but it wasn't tremendously noteworthy.

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>>44122466

You know what, it's going to bother me, so I'll just post it.

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Annnd I think that'll be about it for now. Hope someone's interested!

>>44122768
Thanks for posting, I love threads like this.

contributing

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>>44122831

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Here's a simple random magical item generator.

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>>44123041

>>44122111
Speaking a command word makes one target perceive you as the person they trust the most, and near-everything you say to them is somehow rationalized away by their mind. This would obviously make it incredibly easy to get people to do what you like.

On the other hand, though, the more you use it the more likely you are to start developing a psychosis of sorts. There's a rebound between what the idol makes your targets see, and what is real. You start to remember things that never happened to you involving these other people, you speak differently, you even start to think differently. Eventually it devolves into full-blown schizophrenia if you don't find a way to break the curse. Simply leaving it behind won't be enough to end the effects, although it will stop you from making your situation any worse with repeated usage.

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After a long week of adventuring...

>>44123018
>>44123041
>>44123064
>2- cube
>3- movement
>1- Triple move rate
>7- silver
>5- unlimited duration
>6- everyone
>9- neutral

>The Quicksilver
Clenching the small innocuous silver cube in your hand results in massively increased movement speed until you let go or it runs out of charge.

Huh, actually kinda cool. Might have it in the loot tables for my next campaign.

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Rhino horn

>>44122111
Manny? Manny Calavera, is that you?

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Executioner's coat and swords.

>>44123229
It's pretty handy for on-the-spot magic items when you have no idea.

>>44123653
What is that? Some sort of Marble?

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>>44124169
Japser and chalcedony.

>>44124254
That fucking giant ring.

I also like how all museums use the same print no matter the language.

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>>44124301
Pope's gotta bling.

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Ibex Horn cups are believed to purify poison and to have ...Romantic effects.

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One thing I hate is that any image I got of ancient treasures and crap is so tiny.

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Apparently you CAN take it with you.

>>44124416
Imagine dying a King, waking up n the afterlife. At first your happy, then unbelievable amounts of jewelry begin to appear all over you, weighing you down.
After days of suffering, even your eyes get replaced and your stuck immobile, without sight, forever.
11/10 afterlife

>>44124362
You suddenly take a liking to Poe and his contemporaries?

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>>44124494
Is that wood or something?

>>44123873
>>44123884
A-are those what I think they are?

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>>44124519
Just an aged human skull.

>>44124553
Archer's rings (though I have a feeling only #12 would actually be usable as such). Nephrite jade, gold, rubies. Istanbul, second half of the 16th century.

>>44124574
>Archer's rings
Riiiiiiight, 'archers' suuuuure.
Definitely not for a lower, more personal extremity, no siree.

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>>44124494
>>44124553
How so you carve so deep into something like that? Wouldn't it be delicate?

>>44124449

>Not peeling the very jewelry off of you, and selling it to other distinguished dead.
>Buy yourself some burial slaves, or a nice new concubine
>Or a sword, because those assholes buried you with a bunch of shiny rocks, not a weapon!

I like how Exalted does funeral goods. If your soul passes over into the Underworld, not reincarnated like normal, the goods that are buried with you join you on the other side. Some can even be consumed and turned into quick essence, the stuff that fuels ghosts and their powers, while others are just replicas of the item.

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>>44124589
...How small ARE you?

>>44123919
What is the correct term for that kind of coat. I always thought they looked kind of cool, though I doubt someone none-famous could get away with wearing one in public these days.

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>>44124592
It may be the ageing that gives it a greater feeling of depth than the carvings actually have. In addition, I think the brow and top of the skull are at least relatively thick, it's pretty much our main armour plating. Thicker than the temples at least.

That said, the carver probably knew what he was doing.

>>44124589

I'd wear one just for decoration, they look awesome and I love stone rings.

>>44124609

Sometimes it best not to ask these things.

Just have a moment of quiet pity for the poor soul, and carry on about your dya.

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>>44124609
Hey, that picture had nothing to indicate the diameter of those rings. You can't prove anything!

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I ahd a fun idea for a setting with real miracles where the "Not Catholics" are hard up for healing items in a plague and start hiding treasures from older dead religions in reliquaries of their own saints to "fill the gap"

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>>44124658

>>44124647
Uhh... Sauce?

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>>44124645
The lady doth protest too much.

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These things are the size of a Walnut.

>>44124726
Ye olde Pokeball?

>>44124696
guy called J Young Swan

>>44124601
This brings up something interesting.
Whats the economy like in the underworld? When there is an economic crash or war and the dead flood in, are there housing market issues?
An immigration crisis? "This Is OUR Afterlife!"
I wonder what a ghostly housing market crash would be like.

>>44125360

Grave goods and offerings from descendants are the main form of currency.

Every time you "Pour one out for the homies" they are actually sending them an offering of booze. It's not much, but it's something.

Being buried with a HUGE amount of grave goods is an easy way to gain a lot of power real quick, but eventually you will run out of it. While a little ancestral shrine can gain you a steady supply.

Those who arrived with the terracotta armies and hoards of figure soldiers may have great power, but they rely on the little family groups who still have children offering up goods here and there to sustain it all.

>>44125601
Might be a fun campaign to run, actually. Your character dies and wakes up in the underworld with nothing to their name, maybe what was on their corpse if they are lucky.
Spend the campaign working toward resurrection, or just gaining power and the like. Might have to try writing this out a bit more.

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I have a bunch of items and treasures in my image hoard. Any requests?

>>44122092
http://archaicwonder.tumblr.com/

>>44123585
I love how that real crown isn't as cool as fake ones, like the gems are asymmetrical and the gold could be mistaken for spray-painted cardboard, but it is actually a priceless treasure. It's the kind of visual metaphor you see in fairy tales.

>>44126615
Just dump us up family

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>>44131702

Will do, anon. Request for something if you want it.

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>>44132319

>>44132231

'tis one of the sacred relics brother maynard carries with him!

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>>44132435

>>44123018
>>44123041
>>44123064
>book/scroll
>offensive
>magical attack
>bludgeoning
>brass
>addictive
>everyone
>neutral

When you read aloud from this scroll, mystical strikes batter the enemy. Of course, one gets a little bit too used to having invisible fists at your beck and call, so don't use it more than a few times.

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>>44132652

>>44124740
Forsoothe, and go ye, Pikachu!

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>>44122092
>Not finding a beautiful shrunk version of an angel trapped in a golden contraption, who will help your party with various things

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Dyes are extremely valuable!

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Sometimes, the most mundane treasure is the best.

>>44133218
>All these beautiful colors from around the ancient world, made from equally beautiful, exotic, sometimes deadly materials
>India uses piss

Fucking god dammit India, have you ever even tried?

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>>44129531
That's something they talk about in Discworld, in the Wyrd Sisters book. The main characters hide a crown by throwing it in a bin full of stage props, and they mention how it's easily the least impressive crown in there.

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>>44125314

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>>44132834

>>44133218

>no titanium white
>no magic white
>no cadmium yellow

Bob Ross is disappointed.

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>>44133904

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>>44123229
Pic related?

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>>44135560

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>>44129531
>>44133491
In this case it's also largely a matter of age. Gem cutting in particular was in a very different state in the late10th century than it is in more modern days, and it seems people may have been more forgiving of asymmetry, not quite straight lines, etc. And even the Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire may collect a few dings after more than a thousand years.

Something a bit more modern can be a lot more fitting modern notions of what a crown should be. Though the Black Prince's Ruby has been left untouched since the 14th century.

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>>44135755
Yeah, me. Sober, no.

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>>44135832
And let's remember the bloody name this time.

>>44135961
What on earth is that?

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>>44133660
Aren't some of those Pigments instead?

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>>44136085
A four-pronged vajra. It's a Buddhist ritual implement, symbolic of lightning, enlightenment (striking like lightning), and diamond (the eternal unyielding nature of The Truth).

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For various possibly-magical trinkets, look into netsuke. Chinese ritual bronzes (bells and cups usually) can also be quite neat things, they are occasionally decorated with some very nice square-ish spiral patterns.

>>44136144
That might depend on how adverse you are to a semi-serious case of heavy metal poisoning.

>>44133660
>>44136272
Yeah I think that blue stuff is Cobalt.

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Who taxes your adventurer's treasures or keeps them from stealing a nation's cultural heritage by selling their antique loot?

I have a treasure related question. I'm planning my first attempt at DMing. How the heck do I decide what kind of loot to put in? How much random stuff lying around the ruin is too much, should I figure out what every bandit is carrying in case they get looted, what makes for a good end reward without being TOO good? I can't find advice about this anywhere.

>>44139412
If it's D&D, the DMG has treasure tables. Best idea would be to roll on that for total coin value, then kind of, "buy," equipment for enemies that need it out of that amount, at half price(which is about what players should expect to get back if selling it). Any items that are rolled aren't carried by particular enemies, and are part of a treasure cache.

If you want to do something interesting, either roll on a line a level or two below that, or set aside some of the loot, and put that in a hidden chest that they have the chance to find.

>>44140071
I'm running the UESRPG, unfortunately. I guess I could use the basic idea and set up my own treasure table, somehow, but that seems like it could be tricky.

>>44122294
i hate this

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>>44133076
That's great. They're so tiny and yet so intricate.

>>44123558

Dafuq even is this? It looks like Rube Goldberg's long-lost lance tip.

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>>44137998

Who delights in sabotaging threads with their tumblr-tier SJW faggotry?

You anon. Only you.

>>44142106
It claims to be the spear of Longinus what pierced the side of Christ.

>>44142441
>Somebody asks a reasonable worldbuilding question relevant to the thread topic.
>Suddenly they're an SJW (that's the word we use for people we don't like on this board, right?)
You confuse me.

>>44133218
Obvious inaccuracies I can't help but notice:
>Sepia from the ink of an octopus rather than cuttlefish
>Tyrian Purple made from the shell
>Carmine made from beetles rather than scale bugs
Also, I see no point in it not mentioning the name of the gemstone used to make ultramarine: lapis lazuli.

>>44135961
Well that's a magic doomsday weapon if I ever saw one.

>>44122092
You. I love you

>>44123286
Now that is how you do a treasure hoard

>>44123338
>>44123374
I recognise that room.

Had the guards delete my photos when I tried that.

Ya'll barbarians don't know how to make proper crowns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengguan

>>44123391
>>44132319
EWERS

>>44136144
Yeah, >>44133660's clearly a tinter's stall. Those wrapped wedges are probably bricks of colored ink, and the ridged heaps are all powdered metal pigments, by the looks of it.

The sacks behind the table are pasta, though. A sack of pasta's good loot too.

>>44124592
This is some pretty nice-looking loot, to me.

I prefer this, the shape of the carving, the colour and material (what is the material?), the fact that it has a practical use; it's great. Much better than all those gold crowns and rings.

Do you have any more like this?

>>44154534
I think it's White Jade? Maybe Ivory?

I've made another thread at >>44155000

>>44133232
Oh, this one is NICE.

>>44132231
treasure planet map /10

>>44135934
AWAKEN MY MASTERS/10

>>44122111
When used as a focus while casting summoning magic, it'll double the output. Limited use ala monkey paw.

>>44122126
Caltrops of Dragonslaying

>>44122148
Grants increased life regeneration without increasing your metabolism, but will PAINFULLY shatter if exposed to poison.

>>44122181
This isn't a pendant, it's a lantern. Truesight passively, UMD to view the past of an area you shine it upon.

>>44122203
A single-use tool of unmaking. Catch any undesirables in the reflection and break the mirror to break your target.

>>44122238
The suit is a slowly self-recharging powerbank for the staff, which is the focus. Stab it deeply into the ground and within moment it will sprout into a dire gazebo, very heavily floral patterned. Gloves optional, but splinters are a possibility.

>>44122272
+1 level 1 spell slot.
Tendency to daydream while attempting to cast it, save roll required.

>>44122294
+1 fuck you

>>44122314
Allows the wearer to briefly transform into a being of pure diamond, the hardest metal.

>>44122352
Automatically converts a portion, at least half, of any elemental damage via enchantment or evocation into the next clockwise element. Shocking fireballs, freezing lightning, burning ray of frost.

>>44122381
Compels its owner to open it by any means necessary. There is no key. Go ahead and force it open, enjoy your book of explosive runes.

>>44155742
I need to rewatch that movie.

>>44122409
Plants grown in sunlight reflected by this mirror for a majority of their lives will gain sentience, of a maturity equal to that time. Reflected moonlight will induce madness in the plants. It is permanent. At high levels it leads to demon summoning.

>>44122430
Modifies fire spells to shotgun or fragment styles. Hope you have a lot of small dice. Have fun with your delayed fireballs, should be fun.

>>44122466
>>44122494
Occupancy: 1 caught spell for use at your convenience. User does not need to be able to cast it, very low UMD requirement.

>>44122515
Any biological but nonliving matter passed through this ring is made an incredibly fatal poison.

>>44122590
Each capable of producing a few gallons crystal clear water per day.

>>44122606
Allows the wearer to capture ephemeral beings in every type of standard net.

>>44122629
Any nonmagic jewelry placed into this box will wither, tarnish and grow thinner very slowly over time as the box absorbs its beauty.

>>44122669
+2 accent, -3 teeth

>>44122768
Carries a magical disease that can be spread to warforged, causing them to be much more brittle than usual, but if repaired with precious metals will return to their original strength, cured of it and with a bonus to charisma.