Let’s Make Better Rpg Currencies

@rpg

https://youtu.be/VADntQSNMB4?si=VUw999G0yZ0x52IW

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.

  • 𝕸𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫@dice.camp
    3·
    9 hours ago

    @Shkshkshk @rpg yea, basic expenditures needs to be in copper.

    Shadoversity had a video where he spent 20 minutes saying ‘gold is heavy’, and shows that hiking with 1000 gold coins isn’t really feasible.

    I have no idea what medieval things cost, so I decided 1cp = £1, and assumed items cost what you might see on Etsy (which I also have no idea about, I have done no research).

    • Xilabar the Dice Goblin@dice.campOP
      2·
      8 hours ago

      @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.