When Hack & Slash wrote up his treasure table for OSR, she requested people using it give it a shout. So now I'm shouting.
My players ADORE this list. I've had them regularly ask me, as I describe a piece of abstract sculpture made of aluminium they just found in a dungeon hoard, "where are you coming UP with this stuff?" This is where: Treasure Tables. Containing quick and easy tables for creating everything from piles of trade goods to furniture to clothing and fine art, this will let you really spice up your parties' treasure hauls (with crates of spices!).
This pays big dividends in world realism as monsters and baddies suddenly have a wide variety of stuff to steal, all of which can be thematically appropriate to the bads themselves. My favorite function, however, is that varied kinds of treasure creates new challenges for the party to overcome. "How do we get all this freaking steel back to town?" "How can we find a buyer for this weird mindflayer art we found?" This basically allows treasure to CREATE adventures, instead of merely being the reward FOR adventures. That is fun stuff.
In short, I can't recommend this table highly enough.
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