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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6491201" data-attributes="member: 13009">Unless the pearl or other gem is a spell component (looking at diamonds mostly here) it is just like giving them gold.Now the thing I find my players like is art and jeweled items.  A pearl might be boring, but put a 100gp pearl into the hilt of a porcelain toy soldier's sword and suddenly they don't want to sell it they want to keep it and talk about it.334 cp98 sp189 gp14 pppearl 100gp5 x onyx stones 25 gp eachA silver hand mirror with aquamarines inlaid and engravings of mermaids worth 300gp.A few players might be interested in the plain stones, but for all purposes I could have just added up all the copper, silver, gold, platinum, and gems converted to gold and given them that.I would say most players might pay attention to the mirror, at least thinking it could be magical, but even after detecting and finding it is mundane in the majority of groups I have been in at least one member will want to keep it because it is cool and might be a nice accessory for themselves or a good present to an npc.</blockquote>