CapnZapp
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Ok, why use a Silver Standard?
(Feel free to point me to an existing discussion.)
It basically boils down to personal preference.
There is nothing wrong with a gold based game world economy. There just isn't anything particularly right about it either
This is not a big issue - Dungeons & Dragons is pretty far removed from real history, no matter what color your coins are.
But since switching to silver is so exceedingly simple (just replace the "g" with "s" in "gp" , it is a small and easy nod towards verisimilitude!