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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6124256" data-attributes="member: 58197">Neither does a gold standard. In 3E, the standard treasure value for a great wyrm red dragon is 720,000 gold pieces. If you're envisioning an immense heap of gold, think again. At D&D's standard of 50 coins to the pound, and assuming 40% of the volume is taken up by spaces between the coins, that's one largish chest of coins about 4 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet. Of course, that chest would weigh over seven tons (gold is heavy, yo), so you couldn't carry the hoard, but it wouldn't take up much space; certainly not enough to be a bed for a Colossal dragon.Anyway, you're trying to base the entire currency system on a single trope about a single monster. I'd rather just accept that the legendary dragon lying on a bed of gold has All The Money, and if the PCs somehow kill it, they too will have All The Money. Then the rest of the system can be reasonable.</blockquote>