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Q So are you describing play that takes place on a world set in the unknowable far realm? Drawing on "because fantasy" or "it's only a game" doesn't cover for the claims you are trying to make unless you admit that your posts are describing the unknowable far realm. Not all diamonds pulled from...

You and I live in a world where 3000 carats of diamond dust (bit over a pound) costs about 30$. The reason for that why is same reason that an expensive walnut board even more expensive chair made of walnut and sack of walnut sawdust§ all have wildly different value even if there is a market...

What you aren't mentioning there is the dust of those gems you want to value by "simple mass"... That's why you seemed to be describing the unknowable far realm with what ifs.

A gem should be expected to exist in a form recognizable as a gem. What you are questioning with what ifs sounds more like the unknowable far realm than a recognizable fantasy world, you yourself can't even describe it.

Complaining about realism while engaging in this level of extreme rules lawyering is rich. You are the one complicating things like "50gp diamond" "75gp ruby" "25gp agate" by trying to suggest players can 1:1 convert it to something entirely different simply because those gems aren't...

Even as a little kid I understood that gen value was heavily dependent on how the gem is cut. I have a hard time thinking anyone old enough to be employed might stumble over that. The needless complication you cite comes from the result of trying to apply extreme video game logic in order to...

I have no interest in resuming my AL tables under these rules. There is the bastions already noted, the shredder for everything including the nailed down stuff present in the most recent set of l rules I cared to download, & the cherry on top being Ddb's recent tweet blaming PC death on em...

I'm honestly not sure what point you are trying to support with all of this because it goes all over the place seeming to talk down at both sides and does so while failing to even provide a solid credible example scenario of reasons relevant to actual play. Here are three simple ones. Players...

Since it was discussed earlier, and is certainly related to modern d&D's excessive healing power creep... I guess the implication is that wotc feels healing power creep in 5e is so excessively over the top that player actions &choices in the lead up to a PC death play no partin in what is...

You've gone from why is it important to it can't be important for any reason because it's currently how it is ... Since you seem to be calling upon tradition as the first last and only matter of concern, d&d uses pounds to measure volume not gp.

Same reason why you don't buy vegetables by the square foot of farmland and spend significantly more buying them at a restaurant than a grocery store. The value of a gem is based on clarity and cut. The value of gem dust is based on volume. I linked to a site that sells diamond dust earlier...

Because finding a ruby worth 50gp is different from finding 50gp worth of ruby dust. One is a commodity that money could buy or sell based on the market, the other is a money

I'm going to second or third what others have said, how it acknowledging them munchkinism?... The original inspiration for Vancian casting/prep was literally a series of books. Some of the early episodes of goblin slayer (two or three maybe four☆) even has a scene where one character asks...

That's a choice wotc decided by failing to account for them being present in monster math. Those tks are only during wotc's own claims and odds are good they are doing olit out of frustration and disagreement with that choice

The ability to get a bad result then take it up with the GM like this green screen'd bald firefighter/paramedic how you wouldn't have made xyz choice had you known pz &q like your character should have known with the expectation that it will make the change happen back when you would have.

The SRD entry on taking 10/20 is a bit incomplete in ways that make the bolded bit seem close, but the hurdles taking 10 needed to clear that are not present for RT creates some of the reasons RT is a problem in their absence Those underlined italicized bits were an important limitation that...

Malice has nothing to do with it and there is a line where being "frank" crosses into being rude offensive or just being a jerk. When a player feels the need to say "It'sWhatMyCharacterWouldDo", it's almost always because the person saying it just chose to do something everyone knows is...

No offense but.... Those three words unction as the same linguistic shield from criticism and responsibility for the words that follow as ttrpg equivalents like: "It's what my character would do" along with"I'm a roleplayer and..." I almost never see them used for any other purposes

I think that the biggest benefit to that sort of change for me as a GM would be the ability to have a short list of around five or so high subjective value spell components that are immediately recognized as worthy of being excited about finding. Even if the end result is a slightly longer...

I don't think that anyone is talking about converting gems as treasure/currency alternative to standardized trade goods or something, most or all of the discussion seems to be around costly spell components. While there are a few spells like chromatic orb & identify that use a diamond/pearl...