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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4568508" data-attributes="member: 10177">Right, which is why I extrapolate my decisions from my understanding of current economics. The coins and values have changed, but the fundamental principles still have to be primarily the same.Plus I don't think I have said anywhere in this thread that I agree with the D&D economic system. I drastically changed it to my liking long ago, including having my coins dime sized and 100 to a pound. Not completely realistic, but close enough, gets the job done, and I like it a lot more than when they had it 10 coins per pound. Or even 50 per pound.All of which, admittedly, have historical equivelants. Like for the 10 per pound I believe equates to the spanish doubloons. However I read about dimes being 219 per pound in an issue of Dragon back in the day, decided gold would weigh closer to twice as much, so divided it half, rounded it down to 100 for ease, and have ran with it ever since.So I try to keep things realistic, and fair, but you can only get so close and maintain a recognizable relationship with the rule books you are using.Lets also remember these boards discussions would not go very long if we all agreed with the rules in the books.Oh, and I started gaming back in March of 1984, so I am not very far behind you at all. Plus I lost count too. After 200, and I didn't count Convention gamers, because those weren't campaigns.</blockquote>