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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6126382" data-attributes="member: 32740">The economy that people think they're imitating with a silver standard is one where the GREAT majority have little or nothing of value.&nbsp;&nbsp; With a gold standard, if you hand a peasant a gold piece in most D&amp;D editions you've still given him an amazing sum of money.&nbsp; He won't be changing his social or economic class but it's otherwise still a life-affecting amount.&nbsp;&nbsp; That doesn't change if it's a silver standard and you hand the peasant a silver piece because the relative value of what that silver piece will buy hasn't changed.&nbsp; Changing the coin standard doesn't do much if you don't also change what the CHARACTERS are going to be able to buy with that standard.&nbsp;That being the case then I'd rather have gold as the standard - because it's LESS realistic.&nbsp; It's more like a fantasy environment for player characters, but for the great bulk of the population their lives DO still revolve around the more realistic silver piece.&nbsp;&nbsp; I DON'T want my characters dealing with silver like 98% of all the peasants in the world.&nbsp; I want my characters to be rich.&nbsp; At least TEN TIMES as rich as the average man on the street - and that means that if the man on the street is dealing with a silver standard MY CHARACTER is paying for things with GOLD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6126382, member: 32740"] The economy that people think they're imitating with a silver standard is one where the GREAT majority have little or nothing of value. With a gold standard, if you hand a peasant a gold piece in most D&D editions you've still given him an [I]amazing [/I]sum of money. He won't be changing his social or economic class but it's otherwise still a life-affecting amount. That doesn't change if it's a silver standard and you hand the peasant a silver piece because the relative value of what that silver piece will buy hasn't changed. Changing the coin standard doesn't do much if you don't also change what the CHARACTERS are going to be able to buy with that standard. That being the case then I'd rather have gold as the standard - because it's LESS realistic. It's more like a fantasy environment for player characters, but for the great bulk of the population [U]their[/U] lives DO still revolve around the more realistic silver piece. I DON'T want my characters dealing with silver like 98% of all the peasants in the world. I want my characters to be rich. At least TEN TIMES as rich as the average man on the street - and that means that if the man on the street is dealing with a silver standard MY CHARACTER is paying for things with GOLD. [/QUOTE]

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