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How many coins is 1 bulky item & the real value of gems/trade goods
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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8257535" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>The post I tagged you on was because I thought I may have found some issues with the sheet but you confirmed "bulky items will always be single digit" so it sounds unlikely that "maximum bulky items" box will ever be a weirdly fitting 2 digit number like the screengrab shows.</p><p></p><p>For the rest...</p><p></p><p>In the states we refer to putting coins in the little paper tubes as rolling loose change. Loose change is far more unwieldy than a solid object of equal weight because they slosh around. That's not true in d&d where they are easier than trade goods due to 50 coins=1 pound to make them even easier to efficiently spread across the group than something like a 10 pound bag of pepper or a 10 lb/10yd silk skein. The "bulky items" count could allow inverting that so trade goods are more portable than a pile of loose coins</p><p></p><p>The apparent split between equipment by weight, bulky items, & whatever unit of measurement is used by the treasure/treasure2 fields on the sheet allows trade goods to be the convenient smash & grab type wealth over spending minutes or even hours carefully sorting a pile of coins into boxes If instead of 50 coins=1 pound it were more like the first 100(or whatever) on a pc are baked in to the allocation but everything beyond that is 1 bulky item per whatever number of loose coins with sorted or boxed coins going back to a more reasonable weight like 5-10pound per 500 coin box.</p><p></p><p>With the bulky item loose coins & 5-10pound coin box split across items by weight & far less convenient bulky items it changes the nature of a large pile of coins from changing coin count numbers on everyone's sheet to a logistical problem that takes time and/or planning in order for the group to safely get out & back home with a huge pile of coins. Anyone who has ever sorted coins into rolls or even tried to feed a huge container of loose change into those coin counting coinstar machines knows just how awkward the loose change is compared to neat orderly rolls & boxes of rolled coins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8257535, member: 93670"] The post I tagged you on was because I thought I may have found some issues with the sheet but you confirmed "bulky items will always be single digit" so it sounds unlikely that "maximum bulky items" box will ever be a weirdly fitting 2 digit number like the screengrab shows. For the rest... In the states we refer to putting coins in the little paper tubes as rolling loose change. Loose change is far more unwieldy than a solid object of equal weight because they slosh around. That's not true in d&d where they are easier than trade goods due to 50 coins=1 pound to make them even easier to efficiently spread across the group than something like a 10 pound bag of pepper or a 10 lb/10yd silk skein. The "bulky items" count could allow inverting that so trade goods are more portable than a pile of loose coins The apparent split between equipment by weight, bulky items, & whatever unit of measurement is used by the treasure/treasure2 fields on the sheet allows trade goods to be the convenient smash & grab type wealth over spending minutes or even hours carefully sorting a pile of coins into boxes If instead of 50 coins=1 pound it were more like the first 100(or whatever) on a pc are baked in to the allocation but everything beyond that is 1 bulky item per whatever number of loose coins with sorted or boxed coins going back to a more reasonable weight like 5-10pound per 500 coin box. With the bulky item loose coins & 5-10pound coin box split across items by weight & far less convenient bulky items it changes the nature of a large pile of coins from changing coin count numbers on everyone's sheet to a logistical problem that takes time and/or planning in order for the group to safely get out & back home with a huge pile of coins. Anyone who has ever sorted coins into rolls or even tried to feed a huge container of loose change into those coin counting coinstar machines knows just how awkward the loose change is compared to neat orderly rolls & boxes of rolled coins. [/QUOTE]
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