D&D Bathtub?

[Dannyalcatraz]

I bet he's going to be washing his Donkeyhorse in it.

 

[Nebten]

The old style copper bathtubs (from before indoor plumbing) were often made of copper, and weigh on the order of 200 lbs (without the 65 or so gallons of water they hold). So, whatever 200 lbs of copper cost, plus some for crafting it into a bathtub.

Here's kinda of a measuring stick:

50 coins to a pound (doesn't matter, gold, silver, copper).
So 200 lbs of Copper would be 10000 cp = 100 gold pieces.

Throw in 2d4 x 10 for craftmanship (because you have to have random rolls =v)

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Cracking open my Harrod's 1895 catalog (doesn't everybody have one?) to page 228, I find that a 'Traveling Bath', 30" long, sells for 22/11. (22 shillings and 11 pence.) A water heater, by contrast, sells for 3 pounds 18, heating one gallon per minute. The British pound used to represent one Troy pound of sterling silver, therefor 50 silver pieces to the pound, if using the standard weights for 3.x D&D coins - seems a bit high to me, so let us assume that 1 pound equals about a gold piece. However, if you equate a silver piece with a shilling you get exactly twice that. (20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the shilling, which almost works for a copper piece.) So, either 2gp 2sp and 1cp or 1gp 13sp 11cp, depending on how you count your shillings.

The Auld Grump

 

[Umbran]

Here's kinda of a measuring stick:

50 coins to a pound (doesn't matter, gold, silver, copper).
So 200 lbs of Copper would be 10000 cp = 100 gold pieces.

Well, that depends on the design of your coins.

A modern US penny is 2.5 grams. That works out to be about 180 coins per pound, I think.

A modern US quarter is about 5.6 grams - so that's more like 90 coins per pound.

50 coins per pound, then, are some pretty large coins - the weight of modern half-dollars or so.

 

[IronWolf]

Well, that depends on the design of your coins.

50 coins per pound, then, are some pretty large coins - the weight of modern half-dollars or so.

It could depend on the design of the coin, but the figures Nebten used were based on what is stated in the PHB.

The standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce (fifty to the pound).

 

[Nebten]

That is correct Iron Wolf. Thanx for the clarification. I was using D&D coins since this is for a D&D bathtub =v).

 

[pawsplay]

But of course, D&D 3.5 already states the cost for a lb. of copper.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Umbran]

But of course, D&D 3.5 already states the cost for a lb. of copper.

Yes. 1 lb of copper costs 5 sp. That is consistent with the 50 coins per pound measure.

Call me a simulationist, I guess. Coins of that size are still just friggin' huge, to my mind.

 

[IronWolf]

Call me a simulationist, I guess. Coins of that size are still just friggin' huge, to my mind.

My mental image of gold coins in D&D has always had them closer to half-dollar size, maybe a touch smaller in diameter, but thicker.

Page 168 of the 3.5 PHB has a picture of an actual sized gold piece, at least for Greyhawk.