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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreaddisease" data-source="post: 1492035" data-attributes="member: 3548">Most people have touched on it but the real reason why not to just go get Gold is that is has no practical use.  Gold is a very tender material and needs iron or some other alloy to toughen it up.  It can be made paper thin which is great for many 'modern' conviences such as circuits or other things that I am not familiar with.  Gold standard for coins in ages can be as useless as a piece of quartz if there is too much of it.  If you want to fix your economy (which is what I predict will happen) is that the communities would go to a pure barter system.  Though this doesn't work as concentrated poopulations increase beyond 20,000 or kingdom's population start to breach the 200,000 mark the use is that one item will be worth what it is based on availability.  I just don't see the problem.  If a wizard wastes his time collecting thousands of pounds of gold over 10 years then he misses out on creating powerful magic items.  Plus with their intelligence they would realize that as soon as they spend the gold that gold would be useless.  Diamonds are another issue.  But their rarity even in the earth elemental plane would present a problem in locating and extracting them.  Plus is the hardness of a diamond wall much better than a Stone Wall +3?  What would be beneficial.  I think the only reason a wizard would go for the diamonds would be purely asthetic.  Then the value of them is never realized.  Babbling... continue</blockquote>

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