>Playing Dungeons and Dragons >DM makes the currency conversion weird, 12 coppers to a silver and 20 silvers to a gold >Given 4 gold pieces for completing a task >Not 4 per person, 4 total >Told this is a lot of money
Why can't my DM just give us normal amounts of money?
Nolan White
This is just the monetary system of WFRP...
Ethan Fisher
Pounds, shillings, pence. Wait for the half and quarter copper coins (ha'penny and farthing), half and quarter silver and gold. Remember that a guinea is worth 21 shillings ( 1 gold and 1 silver)
Thomas Russell
>Why can't my DM just give us normal amounts of money? 1920 farthings = 480 pence = 40 shilling = 8 crowns = 3 marks = 2 pounds
17 pence and a farthing is enough for seven days food and shelter.
What's so hard to understand?
Jonathan Gray
>This is just the monetary system of WFRP... This is probably one of those threads where OP makes a semi-obscure reference and then touches himself with each post that fails to get the reference. We get them a lot on Veeky Forums these days.
Ethan Clark
>Remember that a guinea is worth 21 shillings ( 1 gold and 1 silver) Are you sure us italians are with that much... not so sure man. Retail maybe
Ryan Smith
>Tracking money and ammo often becomes tedious busywork in many games >I've yet to see a single well functioning abstract wealth or ammo system
Jacob Williams
You're probably worth the same as any other human when disassembled into your constituent elements...
Austin Martin
No it isn't, 4 gold in WFRP can't buy shit
Ayden Moore
Well, is it a lot of money? What could you buy with 4 gold pieces in your game?
Colton Jenkins
>DM makes the currency conversion weird, 12 coppers to a silver and 20 silvers to a gold >he doesn't just use gold
Ian Rogers
Gold fucking triggers me as a common currency. If some shitfarmer had gold coins laying around, he'd either be in a lot less or in a lot more trouble.
Lincoln Turner
then use copper
Henry Allen
Gold is ridiculously rare in real life, having giant Smaug-hoards of gold is ridiculous.
Brayden Lewis
So is having dragons
Kevin White
That sounds nice tfw no historically accurate peasant simulator DM
Brayden Stewart
>He attributes it to a real-world metal and doesn't just call it coin
Michael Hall
I actually call mine Sol
Kevin Howard
I had a DM try to do this shit >Hurr my setting is unique so we operate at 1/20th of the standard exchange rate >Have to do multiple conversions just to buy simple shit
I get it he's trying to justify not running around with thousands of gold pieces but come on man
Dylan Jenkins
My GM just does gold. It's like copper-silver-platinums don't exist.
I understand this pretty readily; if it's something that's worth less than 1 gold, who gives a shit? And why convert money into platinum? That's fucking dangerous!
James Cook
>British currency conversions I didn't know how badly I wanted this
Ryder Robinson
I saw a post once where the monetary system was skewed to a silver standard. I thought it was a good idea. Gold was used for huge purchases, and was very rare.
Matthew Brown
Why do americans get so upset over retarded monetary units when D&D already uses full retarded units in everything else?
Benjamin Edwards
Give me an example of one of these retarded units that are apparently so commonly used.
Jackson Evans
Feet and pounds.
Daniel Barnes
Not him, but turns and rounds.
It is literally impossible to remember the difference between a turn and a round.
Brody Cruz
miles and fahrenheit
Easton Parker
>not rolling everyday for changes in market value adjusting for political shifts and changes to the safety of trade routes and charging percentages for currency exchange, why even bother having money at all if you won't even replicate currency markets
It would be better for you to just give each person a bottle of vodka 4 potatoes and a loaf of bread each week you pleb teir commie fuck
Oliver Perez
Sounds like your DM didn't read or reinvent Gygax's explanation of the hyper-inflated D&D economy.
Angel Jenkins
>vodka 4 potatoes AND a loaf of bread >Every week Fucking burgeois fuck, you go to gulag first.
Jackson Martinez
>Not living outside of Zimbabwe and having a stable enough economy that you can have consistent prices Dream sweetly of Rhodesia my child.
Brayden Thomas
Count yourself lucky, my DM has us use a barter system.
Ryan Edwards
Is it streamlined or simplified at all, or are you having to RP for 30 minutes just to restock your quiver? A barter system doesn't seem awful, but it does seem like something that's easy to go overboard with and grind the game to a halt.
Oliver Sullivan
Shouldn't DnD's money system already be skewed to a silver standard? I mean, they just use gold as the point of reference when they shouldn't. Silver is the way more common currency.