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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7549937" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I also use a silver standard more for evoking a feeling than any concern about reality.</p><p></p><p>With whatever our standard is, we think of it essentially as being like dollars. They are our baseline. If you use gold standard, the gp is like having a dollar and all costs are based off of it. But doing that means all silver pieces are like dimes and all copper pieces are essentially pennies. And in terms of giving out treasure, finding a giant sack of pennies in some treasure hoard kinda blows. Who is going to actually want to bother picking them up? I mean if you were to break into someone's house and see a giant water cooler bottle that was filled with nothing but pennies... yeah, it might seem kinda(?) worth taking... maybe(?)... but based upon how unwieldy it would be to lug that thing around, all for an undetermined amount that you'd have to spend a long time counting... it probably isn't worth it. Spend a couple hours counting out 2000 pennies for what is essentially 20 bucks.</p><p></p><p>And on top of that... the next (and only) coin up from the gold standard is the platinum piece, and that's worth... $10. Again, it just doesn't seem all that exciting if you find pp, especially considering many old school DMs I don't think tend to drop platinum pieces into hoards in any great amount. So yeah, okay, you end up finding a couple tenners in a satchel. That's... fine. </p><p></p><p>But... if you drop down to the silver standard, the appearances are reversed. Copper pieces now have a seeming worth of 10 cents each. They still have a bit of function in your economy and feel okay to grab because a mere ten of them get you to your baseline. And then on top of that, gold pieces are now worth $10 bucks each, and DMs are more conditioned to drop sacks of them around... so you'll usually find larger piles of gold than you would piles of platinum in a gp standard economy. So for gold we're talking a really good haul! And finally, platinum? One platinum piece is worth $100! Think about how you feel when you have a one hundred dollar bill in your pocket? That's how it feels to have a platinum piece. At this point now, even finding a half-dozen lone coins is a windfall. It makes every platinum coin special.</p><p></p><p>Now of course... not every table will necessarily get that evocation of feeling that strongly even if you switch over, because it really comes down a lot to how the DM runs their economy at the table. But even at the barest minimum... having two larger coins over your standard and only one under just gives the appearance of more worth than one over and two under. No matter how your DM runs it... any coin worth 1/100th of your standard is just gonna feel kinda lame.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7549937, member: 7006"] I also use a silver standard more for evoking a feeling than any concern about reality. With whatever our standard is, we think of it essentially as being like dollars. They are our baseline. If you use gold standard, the gp is like having a dollar and all costs are based off of it. But doing that means all silver pieces are like dimes and all copper pieces are essentially pennies. And in terms of giving out treasure, finding a giant sack of pennies in some treasure hoard kinda blows. Who is going to actually want to bother picking them up? I mean if you were to break into someone's house and see a giant water cooler bottle that was filled with nothing but pennies... yeah, it might seem kinda(?) worth taking... maybe(?)... but based upon how unwieldy it would be to lug that thing around, all for an undetermined amount that you'd have to spend a long time counting... it probably isn't worth it. Spend a couple hours counting out 2000 pennies for what is essentially 20 bucks. And on top of that... the next (and only) coin up from the gold standard is the platinum piece, and that's worth... $10. Again, it just doesn't seem all that exciting if you find pp, especially considering many old school DMs I don't think tend to drop platinum pieces into hoards in any great amount. So yeah, okay, you end up finding a couple tenners in a satchel. That's... fine. But... if you drop down to the silver standard, the appearances are reversed. Copper pieces now have a seeming worth of 10 cents each. They still have a bit of function in your economy and feel okay to grab because a mere ten of them get you to your baseline. And then on top of that, gold pieces are now worth $10 bucks each, and DMs are more conditioned to drop sacks of them around... so you'll usually find larger piles of gold than you would piles of platinum in a gp standard economy. So for gold we're talking a really good haul! And finally, platinum? One platinum piece is worth $100! Think about how you feel when you have a one hundred dollar bill in your pocket? That's how it feels to have a platinum piece. At this point now, even finding a half-dozen lone coins is a windfall. It makes every platinum coin special. Now of course... not every table will necessarily get that evocation of feeling that strongly even if you switch over, because it really comes down a lot to how the DM runs their economy at the table. But even at the barest minimum... having two larger coins over your standard and only one under just gives the appearance of more worth than one over and two under. No matter how your DM runs it... any coin worth 1/100th of your standard is just gonna feel kinda lame. [/QUOTE]
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