Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6126141">Honestly Star Wars is the only universe to do fantasy currency right.&nbsp; ONE unit of measure.&nbsp; &quot;Credits&quot;.&nbsp; Attempting to create a psuedo-free-market system where 100xcopper=1 silver and 10xsilver=1gold and so on and so forth just gets silly.&nbsp; In a largely trade-based economy different precious gems or metals will have different values, in some places fruit might even be more valuable than gold!&nbsp; I mean you go into a famine-struck town, your two &quot;trail rations&quot; might be more valuable than diamonds.&nbsp; Certainly these are largely plot-devices to be added in specific settings, but I still feel that the copper&gt;silver&gt;gold&gt;various gems rules are pretty silly.&nbsp; At some point your players end up getting more currency than reasonably exists in the universe.Some sort of &quot;fiat currency&quot; is IMO, going to create much less stress on the game.&nbsp; Maybe use a &quot;base 8&quot; &quot;Pieces of Eight&quot; system, where the actual material of the currency is unspecified, and left up to the DM and setting to determine if it's silver, gold, or wood.&nbsp; Base 8 is kind of an annoying system, so &quot;Pieces of 10&quot; might be more useful.&nbsp; 10 Bits to a Piece, 10 Pieces to a Lump.&nbsp; I dunno.To be fair though, by the time players hit superbly high level, they should mostly be paid in loyalties, property, or ancient, priceless artifacts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6126141"] Honestly Star Wars is the only universe to do fantasy currency right. ONE unit of measure. "Credits". Attempting to create a psuedo-free-market system where 100xcopper=1 silver and 10xsilver=1gold and so on and so forth just gets silly. In a largely trade-based economy different precious gems or metals will have different values, in some places fruit might even be more valuable than gold! I mean you go into a famine-struck town, your two "trail rations" might be more valuable than diamonds. Certainly these are largely plot-devices to be added in specific settings, but I still feel that the copper>silver>gold>various gems rules are pretty silly. At some point your players end up getting more currency than reasonably exists in the universe. Some sort of "fiat currency" is IMO, going to create much less stress on the game. Maybe use a "base 8" "Pieces of Eight" system, where the actual [I]material[/I] of the currency is unspecified, and left up to the DM and setting to determine if it's silver, gold, or wood. Base 8 is kind of an annoying system, so "Pieces of 10" might be more useful. 10 Bits to a Piece, 10 Pieces to a Lump. I dunno. To be fair though, by the time players hit superbly high level, they should mostly be paid in loyalties, property, or ancient, priceless artifacts. [/QUOTE]

Verification