What Do Pseudodragons Do With Treasure?

[Strill]

The Monster Manual says that Pseudodragons appreciate gifts of treasure. I assume by "treasure", they mean gold and gems, but what would they do with those things? Aren't they too heavy for the pseudodragon to haul around?

[Yora]

Probably the same thing birds do. Display it to attract a mate.

[Nifft]

Invest it in utilities.

The rare EVIL pseudodragon invests in tobacco futures.

[Ninja_Prawn]

A pseudodragon has as much intelligence as an average human. They're well capable of owning and running a household (or, more likely, an annexe in a wizard's house or public library), with a study to display antiques or a vault to hold gold. So, pretty much the same as a large dragon, really.

[Logosloki]

Add to their horde of course!

If you play them like birds though, treasure could be baubles of good colour or lustre or sturdy nest building material. Probably magical items as well, depends if you want to imagine them cat/bird in behaviour and have them nestle up to things magical as if it were warmth.

If you play them as sapient magical creatures then good quality magical items, especially items that would protect a nest and areas of interest.

[goto124]

What Do Adventurers Do With Treasure, Anyway?

[JellyPooga]

Well all the coins go in neat stacks, arranged by size, type, origin and general prettiness. Gems are arranged similarly, in boxes or on shelves, with particularly fine examples displayed on black velvet (if available). Object d'art are placed with no real consideration for taste or fashion and take pride of place by value, both in terms of gold piece and sentiment. Other items, particularly those that have some useful function beyond their appearance, usually get left in the place they were last used, or stored appropriately for their function (e.g. a magic umbrella would go in the umbrella stand by the entrance, books go in the "library", etc.).

Nothing is ever left "out of place"; I see psuedodragons with an almost feline nature. Everything must be "just so", the way they like it; not necessarily tidy, per se, but if you move something in their "horde", I imagine the psuedodragon getting irate about it.

[Yuki Akuma]

Pseudodragons are as intelligent as your average human - they have object permanence and understand the idea of owning property that they can't currently see.

So one assumes they store it somewhere. Maybe display it for others to admire (they are Good, after all) if they aren't paranoid about it being stolen.

[AbyssStalker]

Throw it across the ground and roll around in it like catnip.

[CNagy]

They pseudohoard it.

[Inevitability]

They pseudohoard it.

But what if the pseudoadventurers come?

[georgie_leech]

But what if the pseudoadventurers come?

They pseudofight for it, of course.

[EvanescentHero]

They pseudofight for it, of course.

Once the pseudoadventurers fight their way through the pseudodungeon, obviously.

[Nifft]

But what if the pseudoadventurers come?


They pseudofight for it, of course.


Once the pseudoadventurers fight their way through the pseudodungeon, obviously.

My Alienist would get along with this pseudodragon like two pseudopeas in a pseudopod.

[hymer]

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[Naanomi]

It's sad, but peeudodragons are famous for having addiction issues. Most of it goes to booze or pills, though some gamble it away instead or frequent local brothels until it is all squandered.

They are also frequent victims of get-rich-quick schemes and have poor investment instincts, which doesn't help.

[Broken Crown]

Most pseudodragons can do what few true dragons can even dream of: accumulate a hoard large enough that they can actually sleep on it.

[goto124]

I think pseudodragons tens to be smaller too, which means smaller hoards that feel rock-hard to a true dragon would be soft and plushy to a pseudodragon.

[Coidzor]

Maybe they Eat It? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI)