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<blockquote data-quote="David Sid" data-source="post: 4288660" data-attributes="member: 67138">The sidebar on p. 225 says in normal text it's &quot;silvery,&quot; while the flavor text on p. 304 for Disenchant Magic Item says it's &quot;gold.&quot; So obviously it's gold for the duration of Disenchant Magic Item (instantaneous), then silver after that. When you disenchant a magic item, the item &quot;crumbles to golden dust in your hands,&quot; as per the flavor text. Then—as the dust scatters on the floor and you realize you should have put it in a pan or something before doing the ritual—you notice that now that it's faded to its more permanent &quot;silvery color.&quot; On the wooden floorboards, this is slightly easier to sweep up than gold.On the sidebar on p. 225 is where it says &quot;in some exotic locales, residuum is traded as currency.&quot; I'm thinking this is only for rare and usually planar locales, where everyone, their mother, and their seventeen siblings can cast Disenchant and Enchant Magic Item—in other words, the kind of locale you almost never find in a &quot;Points of Light&quot; setting.On p. 300 is where they say &quot;you can't usually buy it on the open market.&quot; That's a more general statement; you can't trade residuum in most terrestrial towns and cities because of the rarity of people who have or want it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Sid, post: 4288660, member: 67138"] The sidebar on p. 225 says in [B]normal[/B] text it's "silvery," while the [B]flavor[/B] text on p. 304 for Disenchant Magic Item says it's "gold." So obviously it's gold for the duration of Disenchant Magic Item (instantaneous), then silver after that. When you disenchant a magic item, the item "crumbles to golden dust in your hands," as per the flavor text. Then—as the dust scatters on the floor and you realize you should have put it in a pan or something before doing the ritual—you notice that now that it's faded to its more permanent "silvery color." On the wooden floorboards, this is slightly easier to sweep up than gold. On the sidebar on p. 225 is where it says "in some exotic locales, [I]residuum[/I] is traded as currency." I'm thinking this is only for rare and usually planar locales, where everyone, their mother, and their seventeen siblings can cast Disenchant and Enchant Magic Item—in other words, the kind of locale you almost never find in a "Points of Light" setting. On p. 300 is where they say "you can't usually buy it on the open market." That's a more general statement; you can't trade [I]residuum[/I] in most terrestrial towns and cities because of the rarity of people who have or want it. [/QUOTE]

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