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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marx420" data-source="post: 5174573" data-attributes="member: 88456">Set, I must say that your orichalum currency is a very interesting idea, and I'll probably phase out the 100gp platinum for it (send plat back to 10gp a piece). In my own games I have ruled that direct expenditure of wealth is equivalent to a certain amount of experience (ale and whores) or magical power (forget the exact proportions), but that magic power was derived solely from gold (one of the most magically reactive substances known, and the basis for most permanent magics). I have standardized coinage due to the intervention of the lesser draconic deity Walua who is granted enough power by the current pantheon to continue his magical minting service but not restore his portfolio (any appropriate amount of precious metal upon which the coin rune is inscribed form into coins of perfect sheen and weight, also works for trade bars). This orichalum seems to fit a nice niche above gold, as it is dangerous to carry large amounts of gold since it can be ignited by magic and thereby utilized as crude magical fuel for desperate mages or a strange diversion for others (a free range gold burn emanates wild magic). Have you by any chance played the old lucas arts adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? In that game they utilized orichalum much to the same affect to power their ancient machinery (golems and other cool stuff) though eventually it's power warped them into monsters<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />.</blockquote>

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