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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 4003865" data-attributes="member: 8439">As I mentioned in the other thread, I prefer a silver standard in a PoL setting because within the mechanics of the D&D world, silver has more true value than gold. Gold is valuable because... well, you know, it's pretty and stuff.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  In theory, someone out there who can cover all the necessities of life and then some would like to have a pretty necklace made of it, so next time traders come through, they can take this pretty metal off our hands and will probably give us a lot of the necessities of life for it. Silver is pretty too. But more importantly, even a first level cleric can use it to create holy water to use against undead, or to cast a protection from evil spell on the village defender. Or it can be applied by a sufficiently skilled smith to make a weapon more potent against a host of high and low level threats. (obviously the examples I give are 3e based, they could change everything in 4e, etc) On the other hand, while you will often see material components of "X gp worth of oils/inks/playdoh/etc" the only mechanical use for gold I can think of is the gold ring focus for shield other. So, while in a setting with a strong central government (or two or three that honor currencies) the gold piece standard is as good as any other version of that social fiction we call money, in a PoL setting I see silver as a better standard since it has the precious metal aspect and a practicality that gives it value in even the most isolated community.Maybe in my next campaign the economy will operate on a Salt Standard.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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