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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slwoyach" data-source="post: 4721537" data-attributes="member: 1022">That article takes an extremely narrow view of coinage.  Currency has existed from the very beginnings of civilization, counters and ingots being used to represent large amounts of grain.  If you want to highlight the difference between early currency and coinage that's fine, but the midnight campaign setting makes no such distinction.  Transactions described in the campaign book take the form of paying for room and board at an inn by killing an animal and giving it to the innkeeper.  This is absolutely ridiculous.  A single kill can feed many people, how does the rest of the clientele pay for their meals?  Do they also hunt something down and give it to the innkeeper so  it can rot before being consumed?  They can't all do manual work either, as their is only so much work to go around.The economy in midnight is pretty much a dark ages economy, except it is supported by a prehistoric exchange system.</blockquote>