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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cmbarona" data-source="post: 6126367" data-attributes="member: 71281"><p>I initially voted Gold 1-100, then Silver 1-100, but after reading these posts, I have to agree that I don't really care all that much. So I'll vote "Other." I think there are a few good reasons why I don't care:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">When I track money in my character sheet, I have never bothered to track my exact coinage. It's cumbersome. I don't track how many quarters, dimes, nickels, and especially not pennies, that I have in my wallet at any given time. I put it away and just check if I have enough change for any given purchase in front of me. Moreover, in my bank account, I just worry about a single currency: dollars and fractions thereof. I barely think in terms of "63 cents." I think about "point 63 dollars." What matters is that a standard exists, and that it's easy to calculate when you get more and when you need to purchase something.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I abhor arguments concerning the rarity of metals as an assumption of their inherent value, like "Gold is worth a lot more than 10 times an equal weight of silver!." Unless, of course, you're trying to replicate an actual Earth historical period. In that case, more power to you, I'd like to play a different game or let you handle the math, thank you very much. But if the campaign world I <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment" target="_blank">imagine, make up, and fictionally create</a> has an exchange rate of 10 silver to 1 gold, then by the power vested in me as DM of the table, that world shall contain metals in the exact rarity needed to enforce that rate of exchange.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Given the above two, I would much prefer WotC publish a single unit of currency and suggest you make up whatever forms of currency you want to make that work. Item X cost 100 "money." "Money" can be 100 gold pieces, 100 silver pieces, 10 gold bits, 1 Platinum piece, 100 credits, .58439715 bitcoins, or whatever you want. I think this system should come with a default currency suggestion, of course, just so there's a default assumption to make Encounters and the like easier to jump into.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>

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