Can some one explain the lair treasure table and how to roll on it?

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Can some one explain the lair treasure table and how to roll on it?

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I'm looking at the rule book and trying to make heads or tales if the lair treasure chart. Am I meant to roll a d100 or something here? How do I decide which category to roll for? I know the monsters have specific letters assigned to the row but idk
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Move across the selected row (for example, H for a dragon), rolling each chance given:

75% chance of 8d10 x 100 copper pieces,
75% chance of 6d10 x 10 x 100 silver pieces,
75% chance of 3d10 x 10 x 100 electrum pieces,
75% chance of 5d8 x 10 x 100 gold pieces,
75% chance of 9d8 x 100 platinum pieces,
50% chance of 1d100 gems (and use the subtables to generate them),
50% chance of 10d4 items of jewelry (and use the subtables to generate them),
and a 20% chance of any 1d4 magic items + 1 potion + 1 scroll (rolled on the appropriate tables)

If a percentage is not given (for example, for individual treasures), just roll the given dice. For a type P treasure you have 3d8 copper pieces; for a type S, 2d4 gold pieces; and so on.
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ALSO, a hint for gems: To save time, if a treasure has more than 10 or so gems, roll 1 or 2 d10's to create a sub-group, then roll on the subtables and assume the whole group are similar gems, repeating as needed until the group is less than 10 and then make those all the same. This isn't that unusual in "real life" and will make the generation process quicker.
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So i roll a d100 and if its below those percentages for everyone of those categories someone could make a ridiculous ammount of loot? Would you recommend rolling once and just applying the result to every monster it seems like a lot of rolling
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You can roll once for each category and once for each creature that carries their loot, for lair treasure just roll once unless the lair is truly big.
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You have to roll once for each category, but you only roll for each monster individually on the "individual treasures" table.

Let's take an example, Kobold is P, Q each; C in lair.

So, you roll 3d8 copper pieces and 3d6 silver pieces for each kobold, but you can assume they all the same amount if you want and only roll once.

Now, in the kobold lair, there might be a whole pile of treasure. You role 1d100 for copper, silver, electrum pieces. That's 3 different rolls. Two more rolls to see if they have any gems or jewelry and then one last roll for magic items--which could be owned and used by the kobold king or the kobold shaman depending on what it is.
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Thanks so much! This explanation is really easy to understand I was getting confused with the lair and individual treasure tables
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Or use the automatic treasure generator on the Tools page above.
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