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<blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2816556" data-attributes="member: 24945">I got the pdf of Living Fantasy recently and the section on coinage sparked a thought- why don't dwarves rule if they are the ones mining metals that are used as money? It would be easy to do by dropping the veins of ore by 2 or 3 miles so that humans and gnomes have little or no access.To keep their technological edge, the dwarves would keep all the iron they mine and allow the surface world to only obtain brass or bronze. They use the money they produce to pay spies to keep an eye out for non-dwarves who are using iron or steel items.Gnomes are lesser allies who are used for their magical and alchemical abilities, humans and halflings toil in the fields to produce food and staff the armies the dwarves use to war with the elves and other &quot;resistant&quot; &quot;light lovers&quot;. Orcs and the goblinoids are screwed as they have little in terms of metal items and are stuck in the middle of a war between races much more powerful than them.I am not going to develop this and am posting so that others might take the idea and run with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMH, post: 2816556, member: 24945"] I got the pdf of Living Fantasy recently and the section on coinage sparked a thought- why don't dwarves rule if they are the ones mining metals that are used as money? It would be easy to do by dropping the veins of ore by 2 or 3 miles so that humans and gnomes have little or no access. To keep their technological edge, the dwarves would keep all the iron they mine and allow the surface world to only obtain brass or bronze. They use the money they produce to pay spies to keep an eye out for non-dwarves who are using iron or steel items. Gnomes are lesser allies who are used for their magical and alchemical abilities, humans and halflings toil in the fields to produce food and staff the armies the dwarves use to war with the elves and other "resistant" "light lovers". Orcs and the goblinoids are screwed as they have little in terms of metal items and are stuck in the middle of a war between races much more powerful than them. I am not going to develop this and am posting so that others might take the idea and run with it. [/QUOTE]

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