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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8369182" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>I guess your dwarves would be doomed. Which is, I think, more fun. The heroes would be more heroic if they helped a dwarven lord to weasel out of his agreement if the price for not paying the agreed upon amount is to put the city into Hell, Elturel style, including the innocent subjects of the local lord rather than helping avoid a 3,74% increase of the greedy dwarven lord's yearly budget.</p><p></p><p>To put things into perspective, 50 gp weighs one pound by RAW and are valued as such (you can buy one pound of pure gold for 50 gp). So, 201 millions gp weighs 4.02 millions pounds (thanks [USER=21843]@Dioltach[/USER] for noticing the division error) or 1,820 tons of gold. Compared to the 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush, admittedly over a much shorter period but with much more people, or to the Dacian mines of the Roman Empire which were thought to have provided 500 tons of gold over two centuries. The total gold in circulation in Europe pre-1492 is estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 tons IIRC. The amount asked is ten time the total amount of gold brought to Europe from South America by Spain <a href="https://www.shmoop.com/spanish-colonization/trivia.html" target="_blank">Spanish Colonization Trivia</a> and this amount was enough to have a significant impact over the economy...</p><p></p><p>Edit: here is a reference for of one estimate of medieval gold amount : <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21969100" target="_blank">How much gold is there in the world?</a> at 12,780 tons</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8369182, member: 42856"] I guess your dwarves would be doomed. Which is, I think, more fun. The heroes would be more heroic if they helped a dwarven lord to weasel out of his agreement if the price for not paying the agreed upon amount is to put the city into Hell, Elturel style, including the innocent subjects of the local lord rather than helping avoid a 3,74% increase of the greedy dwarven lord's yearly budget. To put things into perspective, 50 gp weighs one pound by RAW and are valued as such (you can buy one pound of pure gold for 50 gp). So, 201 millions gp weighs 4.02 millions pounds (thanks [USER=21843]@Dioltach[/USER] for noticing the division error) or 1,820 tons of gold. Compared to the 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush, admittedly over a much shorter period but with much more people, or to the Dacian mines of the Roman Empire which were thought to have provided 500 tons of gold over two centuries. The total gold in circulation in Europe pre-1492 is estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 tons IIRC. The amount asked is ten time the total amount of gold brought to Europe from South America by Spain [URL='https://www.shmoop.com/spanish-colonization/trivia.html']Spanish Colonization Trivia[/URL] and this amount was enough to have a significant impact over the economy... Edit: here is a reference for of one estimate of medieval gold amount : [URL='https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21969100']How much gold is there in the world?[/URL] at 12,780 tons [/QUOTE]
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