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Let's Make Better Rpg Currencies (cdn.masto.host)

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Let's Make Better Rpg Currencies

@rpg

https://youtu.be/VADntQSNMB4

I'm curious what currency systems my fellow #ttrpg GMs have dreamt up when #worldbuilding.

It's always annoyed me how #dnd's gp/sp/cp currency resembles the USD system so much in the way it is used, despite the fact that IRL a single gold coin would be worth more than my car. Does #WotC think my backpack is worth $8k? That makes no sense to me.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

@malin @rpg

I mean, usually my #dnd players strongly dislike tracking encumbrance, so the coins might as well be weightless.

Something I think people tend to forget about is the practice of "free lunch". Sit yourself down at the bar, order a drink, and you get access to a whole lunch menu as long as you keep drinking. It particularly makes sense if a pint of beer &/or a single lunch actually costs slightly less than a cp, so two beers would cover the cost.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Shkshkshk @rpg
I just listed an entrance cost, all drinks included. Sounds like you basically arrived at the same solution.

The beer's gonna rot after a day or two anyway, so it's not like the barkeep really needs to cling to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

@malin @rpg

Wait, beer rots? Gonna look into this real quick. Sounds like something beer shouldn't do

Edit: Turns out ale was nearly nonalcoholic back then and was viewed the way protein shakes are now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

@Shkshkshk @malin @rpg yeah wasn't it basically *just enough* alcohol to make it safer to drink than water?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

@Shkshkshk @malin @rpg the PHB does pretty much say that coins are rarely used day to day, and most trading is done by barter or other exchange. True, adventurers are some of the people most likely to use coins, but maybe those gold coins aren't all literal gold coins

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah mate please don't bring #hastags in the middle of sentences to this platform, please.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude they are posting from Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. I recognise the @'s at the beginning of the message. Please don't bring middle-of-the-sentence-hashtags to it. It makes the text less legible, for the sake of better SEO on... Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I find it funny that you are only taking issue with it here, in the comments, not with the original post