Mithral Costs / Exchange Rate

[Ironstorm]

Can someone direct me to a place to figure out the GP value of mithral per piece?

 

[Apollo's WIll]

Gandalf (aye, the one from Lord of the Rings) once said that: "Mithril is one hundred times more valuable than gold."


So perhaps 1 mithril coin = 100 gold coins??

 

[UltimaGabe]

In D&D, by the core rules, there's no monetery conversion for Gold to Mithral, since Mithral isn't currency in D&D. The only pricing for Mithral, by the core rules, is the price adjustments for making weapons and armor made of Mithral in the DMG (that is, +1,000 gp for Light Armor, +4,000 for Medium Armor, +9,000 for Heavy Armor, +1,000 for Shields, and +500 per pound of other items). Mithral, however, isn't meant to be currency, and there really isn't a good way to convert it directly to money.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Since we have a general value of 500 gp per pound, it is on par with platinum (50 coins per pound, so it's 10 gp per coin, like with platinum). But using mithral as coinage would be a waste. Stick with those heavy metals, that aren't good for much else, as coinage, and use mithral in a really useful way, i.e. make armours out of it.

 

[Ironstorm]

On a adventure I came across a Person willing to sell some mithril pieces to us but we could not find a place that gave a value per piece so we can figure out how much to buy.

KaeYoss where did you find the general value per pound at?

We never had any intention to use it as currency.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

In the mithral description, it says that other items (other than armour and related stuff) cost +500 gp per pound. Now, I think the original value of the item is pretty much neglegible (a couple of gp per pound at most, nothing compared to 500 gp per pound).

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Gandalf (aye, the one from Lord of the Rings) once said that: "Mithril is one hundred times more valuable than gold."

Yeah, he said it, but he just wanted to con frodo of his riches, selling him his "valuable" selfmade mithral trinkets. And probably it was just regular silver, too, which the dwarves are flogging everywhere.