UngeheuerLich
Legend
Mammon also didn't specify the size of the coins. So if it is ant sized generations, it is ant sized coins.
On the other hand, an estimated guess is 100 dollar per gp. So even 21m gp is just 2 billion dollars, not too much for the owner of a gold mine.Mammon also didn't specify the size of the coins. So if it is ant sized generations, it is ant sized coins.
or you could do that, yes"If Ants be the unit by which ye measure time, then Ant-scaled coins ye shall have by the billions!"
Shouldn't that be 10 tons? Still a huge amount for sure.
- A goldpiece is approximately 1/50 of a pound, so 1 million GP is about 20,000 pounds, or 100 tons of gold.
Ah, so Mammon's plans were nearly seamless.Some adjustments you might consider to explain the situation:
The mines were connected by Mammsy to the Elemental Plane of Earth in a rich deposit of gold.
While undepleteable, there was not specification on the yield per day, right? Perhaps the trick was not the ant/dwarf generation issue, but just that the yield per day was muuuuuch smaller than expected.
Awesome post. But don't we all know the answer to this?Did someone ask an engineering question? Civil engineer here to help!
- Modern equipment (explosives, power drills, bulldozers, diesel-powered ore hoppers, front-end loaders...) can dig and process about 50,000 to 100,000 tons of ore per day. I don't have numbers for manually digging through rock with pickaxes and shovels, but I imagine it would be much, much slower (pick your favorite number here; I'd estimate 5-10 tons per day.) But let's say your dwarves have the D&D equivalent of heavy equipment: magical pickaxes, steam engines, golems, etc., and let's wave our hands and call it 20k tons per day.