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Who else uses silver as the currency denominator rather than gold?
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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7180863" data-attributes="member: 6895991"><p>All adventurers are poor at the start in my campaigns. In my actual GH campaign they started out hunting rats in the sewers for some silver per rat tail <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>If you got shops selling everything non-magic and every scroll to copy for wizards and instead of the stupid starting gear they are free to buy anything they can afford then you get a much better grip on the campaign. You can steer the players into a direction by offering silver coins as a reward.</p><p></p><p>With raw there is not motivation to earn be it gold or silver. The adventurers take their starting gear and get the good equipment from looting mobs and the DM is to lazy to build up a basic economic.</p><p></p><p>The gold they find is a nice to have but of no further use.</p><p></p><p>Otoh and to address your question directly:</p><p></p><p>As some stated in earlier posts in this thread the wage of a labourer is some silver.</p><p></p><p>In a game where a simple dagger, a every days tool to cut your food is worth gold!</p><p></p><p>That is 1. ridiculous, 2. not in a healthy relation to anything.</p><p></p><p>It is like you going to some very poor country as a multimillionaire tourist , say some country with high inflation where you can use the money to light your cigarettes because it is so cheap compared to your dollars. And on the top your toothbrush in your toilet bag is costing 1000 Dollars, and you do not care if you pay 1000 dollars for your toothbrush because you are so rich.</p><p>Otoh the taxi driving you to your hotel costs 10 cent and the driver gets 5 as his share. The taxidriver would say:" oh please give me your shabby old toothbrush instead, so I can sell it and be rich"</p><p></p><p>Do you see what I try to point out.</p><p></p><p>A sword is worth 100 gold only if the pommel heft and crossbar are made from 333/1000</p><p>gold and the whole blade is fire goldened, and if it is made from steel as it should be then its worth 100 silver and that's it.</p><p></p><p>In some medieval countrys in RL history every able man had to own a sword that means your common labourer / peasant too. He could never afford it if it were 100 gold he needs to pay for that.</p><p></p><p>Every rogue in a 200 mile circle around the adventurers would rob try to rob them just for their nonmagic equip, because he could live the rest of his life in luxury.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 7180863, member: 6895991"] All adventurers are poor at the start in my campaigns. In my actual GH campaign they started out hunting rats in the sewers for some silver per rat tail :P If you got shops selling everything non-magic and every scroll to copy for wizards and instead of the stupid starting gear they are free to buy anything they can afford then you get a much better grip on the campaign. You can steer the players into a direction by offering silver coins as a reward. With raw there is not motivation to earn be it gold or silver. The adventurers take their starting gear and get the good equipment from looting mobs and the DM is to lazy to build up a basic economic. The gold they find is a nice to have but of no further use. Otoh and to address your question directly: As some stated in earlier posts in this thread the wage of a labourer is some silver. In a game where a simple dagger, a every days tool to cut your food is worth gold! That is 1. ridiculous, 2. not in a healthy relation to anything. It is like you going to some very poor country as a multimillionaire tourist , say some country with high inflation where you can use the money to light your cigarettes because it is so cheap compared to your dollars. And on the top your toothbrush in your toilet bag is costing 1000 Dollars, and you do not care if you pay 1000 dollars for your toothbrush because you are so rich. Otoh the taxi driving you to your hotel costs 10 cent and the driver gets 5 as his share. The taxidriver would say:" oh please give me your shabby old toothbrush instead, so I can sell it and be rich" Do you see what I try to point out. A sword is worth 100 gold only if the pommel heft and crossbar are made from 333/1000 gold and the whole blade is fire goldened, and if it is made from steel as it should be then its worth 100 silver and that's it. In some medieval countrys in RL history every able man had to own a sword that means your common labourer / peasant too. He could never afford it if it were 100 gold he needs to pay for that. Every rogue in a 200 mile circle around the adventurers would rob try to rob them just for their nonmagic equip, because he could live the rest of his life in luxury. [/QUOTE]
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