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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Praeco" data-source="post: 979002" data-attributes="member: 10941">I never liked the image of someone carrying thousands of coins around with them. One woul think that if someone had that much hard cash they would convert it to more practical items. In the case of a somewhat primitive hill giant, I don't really see why it would be keeping all those coins around anyway. It's not like said giant is going to stroll into town and purchase goods with all this gold and silver. I prefer to give items out rather than coins. Maybe the hill giant had several golden figurines taken from a merchant. The trade value of the figurines may be more than the coins as they are crafted items. Of course they would be worth money only to the right person. This creates some interesting opportunity as the players look for somewhere to trade off this loot.I suppose I just don't particularly like the way the modern cash economy is shoehorned into the D&D system. I think a system with that much abstraction would have long ago have moved to a somewhat more portable form of cash trade, just as occured in reality.</blockquote>