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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkCrisis" data-source="post: 102681" data-attributes="member: 1788">This question has been plagueing me for a long time...  I was DMing a game and the situation arose where the PC's came into a large sum of gold coins.....The PC's had wandered into a Deep Dragons lair (in the Underdark) and cut a deal with him to use a magical teleporter he was guarding if they went and killed a rival of his (a mindflayer).  Now in this Deep Dragons lair there was mountains of gold and magic items.  I figurd the PCs wouldn't be dumb enough to try to take any cause the Deep Dragon would waste them with no problem... well they go perform the task and the Deep Dragon allows them access to the teleporter.  Now the PCs got it into their heads to link hands and just as the one PC used the magic device that opens the teleporter the other PC at the end of the human chain grabs ontoa pile of gold and woosh they teleport away!  (Quite ingenious I thought).  Anyways they appear in an unused drow noble house in Menzo with gold coins bursting from the seams of this house... so the PCs fill there packs etc with gold then leave the rest for the drow.  Included in the gold was a sword I hadn't intended for them to get (+4 Defending Scimitar) but to balance it out I had them find a nifty magic necklace in the pile as well which one PC immediately tried on... and died. (Necklace of Strangulation).... anyways so how much gold can a back pack carry in pounds and in value? like few thousand coins?-Crisis</blockquote>

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