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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8381243" data-attributes="member: 58197">Based on that peerless source of unimpeachable truth, <a href="http://www.roachkings.com/ROL-GenMed1.html" target="_blank">research by an Internet rando</a>, the gold/silver price ratio in ancient and medieval economies (before the influx of silver from the New World) tended to hover between 8-to-1 and 12-to-1. The PHB's choice of 10-to-1 is dead in the middle of that range, and has the great virtue of simplicity on top of that.<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4181917-copper-silver-ratio-range-for-thousands-of-years" target="_blank">This other Internet rando's research</a> suggests silver/copper ratios ranging from 40-to-1 to 100-to-1. The PHB's choice of 10-to-1 is not completely out of the ballpark, but it's pushing the limit. If I were designing a currency system and trying to inject some realism, while maintaining ease of use at the table, I'd pick 100-to-1: 1 gp = 10 sp = 1,000 cp.To the original question of &quot;Should D&amp;D be converted to a silver standard?&quot;--I would like it if it were, and I'd happily play in a campaign where that was the case. However, from a DM perspective, it fails my test of &quot;Is this important enough to make my players remember a house rule?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8381243, member: 58197"] Based on that peerless source of unimpeachable truth, [URL='http://www.roachkings.com/ROL-GenMed1.html']research by an Internet rando[/URL], the gold/silver price ratio in ancient and medieval economies (before the influx of silver from the New World) tended to hover between 8-to-1 and 12-to-1. The PHB's choice of 10-to-1 is dead in the middle of that range, and has the great virtue of simplicity on top of that. [URL='https://seekingalpha.com/article/4181917-copper-silver-ratio-range-for-thousands-of-years']This other Internet rando's research[/URL] suggests silver/copper ratios ranging from 40-to-1 to 100-to-1. The PHB's choice of 10-to-1 is not [I]completely[/I] out of the ballpark, but it's pushing the limit. If I were designing a currency system and trying to inject some realism, while maintaining ease of use at the table, I'd pick 100-to-1: 1 gp = 10 sp = 1,000 cp. To the original question of "Should D&D be converted to a silver standard?"--I would like it if it were, and I'd happily play in a campaign where that was the case. However, from a DM perspective, it fails my test of "Is this important enough to make my players remember a house rule?" [/QUOTE]

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