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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3616706" data-attributes="member: 3929">It's only significant if the amount of wealth found is large compared to the total wealth of the country.If you're talking about a big country with hundreds of thousands of people, several large cities, and a well supplied army, 10,000gp might mean a whole lot to an individual, but have less of an effect on the aggregate economy than you expect.It makes no difference if we're talking about fiat money or specie; they function identically with regard to relative prices.Assume that two tribes meet and buy and sell things with pearls. A deer will feed a family for a week, and a fish will feed a family for a day. Everything else equal, you would expect the deer to cost 7 times as many pearls as a fish. Personal preference, storage facilities, cooking facilities, size and weight of the food may change that relationship, but if the deer provides 7 times the utility as the fish, then the deer will cost 7 times as many pearls. This relationship is unaffected if there are 1000 pearls as the money supply, or 100,000.Besides reducing transportation cost (easier to transport $10,000 than $10,000 worth of gold), the biggest difference between fiat money and specie is the reliance upon the law to enforce the payment of promissory notes; a significant difference is not in the economic function of the currency.I make all the prices based off of silver pieces instead of gold. So a sword that costs 10gp would cost in my campaign 10sp, or 1gp. This is merely for flavor, and here I agree with you on the atmosphere.</blockquote>

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