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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8177783" data-attributes="member: 6687260"><p>You could use something else as trade goods or several things, but it's generally easier to track them in gold piece equivalents.</p><p></p><p>So the PCs could have 50gps of Silk, 20 gp of jade and 30gps of Frankincense.</p><p></p><p>But unless you want to slow the game down with the minutia of haggling and price differentials of goods depending on their relative scarcity in particular places, you're going to need some kind of numerical exchange value.</p><p></p><p>If you want to have less currency around, you might present at least the element of exchanging different goods in order to make them more portable. For example, the PCs may be paid for a job in trade goods such as Horses, or bales of silk or Owlbear eggs and they may then need to find a way to exchange that value in gold for something more portable.</p><p></p><p>For my own purposes I tend to assume that no one in the setting has truly ludicrous amounts of actual gold coins. You will never find 100,000 GPs of coin and noone will ever pay for something in that. Basically to hold onto that much wealth you need a castle or something to keep it in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8177783, member: 6687260"] You could use something else as trade goods or several things, but it's generally easier to track them in gold piece equivalents. So the PCs could have 50gps of Silk, 20 gp of jade and 30gps of Frankincense. But unless you want to slow the game down with the minutia of haggling and price differentials of goods depending on their relative scarcity in particular places, you're going to need some kind of numerical exchange value. If you want to have less currency around, you might present at least the element of exchanging different goods in order to make them more portable. For example, the PCs may be paid for a job in trade goods such as Horses, or bales of silk or Owlbear eggs and they may then need to find a way to exchange that value in gold for something more portable. For my own purposes I tend to assume that no one in the setting has truly ludicrous amounts of actual gold coins. You will never find 100,000 GPs of coin and noone will ever pay for something in that. Basically to hold onto that much wealth you need a castle or something to keep it in. [/QUOTE]
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