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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4003324" data-attributes="member: 1003">Huh?&nbsp; Gold is gold by weight.&nbsp; It's a universal currency by its very nature as a rare element that can neither be created nor destroyed.&nbsp; It doesn't matter if you use Dwarven links or Elven sliphs. Unless you're trying to sell some rare coinage to a collector, it's just weight on the scales.The idea of &quot;the gold piece&quot; is abstract.&nbsp; If your game is in the Forgotten Realms your PC may actually find &quot;thirty-three Double Eagles (currency of Baldur's Gate)&quot; which is worth exactly eight s.p. (not ten).&nbsp; Do the math and those 33 coins are worth 26.4 Cormyrian Lions (the &quot;standard&quot; g.p. of the Dalelands and Western Heartlands) simply as a result in difference by weight.&nbsp; Most DM's just don't bother with this level of detail though.I think your conceptual problem arises from the fact that you think fiat money (the kind issued by a central government) is the only kind of money there is. That is not the case. There are many, many kinds of money. D&amp;D-world has settled on gold, and even the real world could go back to using gold as money under the right circumstances.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4003324, member: 1003"] Huh? Gold is gold by weight. It's a universal currency by its very nature as a rare element that can neither be created nor destroyed. It doesn't matter if you use Dwarven links or Elven sliphs. Unless you're trying to sell some rare coinage to a collector, it's just weight on the scales. The idea of "the gold piece" is abstract. If your game is in the Forgotten Realms your PC may actually find "thirty-three Double Eagles (currency of Baldur's Gate)" which is worth exactly eight s.p. (not ten). Do the math and those 33 coins are worth 26.4 Cormyrian Lions (the "standard" g.p. of the Dalelands and Western Heartlands) simply as a result in difference by weight. Most DM's just don't bother with this level of detail though. I think your conceptual problem arises from the fact that you think fiat money (the kind issued by a central government) is the only kind of money there is. That is not the case. There are many, many kinds of money. D&D-world has settled on gold, and even the real world could go back to using gold as money under the right circumstances. [/QUOTE]

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