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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3158441" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>The suggestion to use fake/toy/plastic coins as in-game props is an interesting one that I've been considering since it's come up several times recently and RPG specific products are available for the purpose.  I think the biggest obstacle I have with it is that it would be fine if the PC's only ever carried and used a small coin purse of cash, but they carry hundreds, even THOUSANDS of coins especially when leaving dungeons.  With that the fun of doling out coins or chips, and using colored plastic and glass beads and baubles for gems fails.  If I'm gonna do this I'd want it to be the ONLY accepted means of tracking money for the PC's since to do otherwise would only invite confusion: "Okay, I now have another 37 gold tokens but I spent 3,416 gold pieces on equipment, so I'll adjust the WRITTEN total on my character sheet by this much, and hand back 'x' number of tokens, 3 blue beads, 1 red bead, and take on 4 new clear beads to make change, and now my accounts SHOULD be correct except I seem to have dropped one of my brown beads into the shag carpet and we don't have enough poker chips to go around so we're using actual pennies right...?"</p></blockquote><p></p>