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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8335680" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, obviously gold is not terribly realistic. OTOH cash was quite a bit more prevalent than traditional ideas about 'Dark Age Europe' make room for. In fact historians of Medieval Europe will laugh you out of the room if you utter that phrase in their presence these days. Now, obviously 6th Century North Western Europe was not in general a place where cash was commonplace in everyday life, such as it is in D&amp;D games, typically. OTOH even the 5th Century Saxon 'kings' issued coinage. It was mostly silver of course, though gold coins did exist in all periods and were minted from time-to-time. The Romans definitely minted them too.Random people who play D&amp;D obviously get a lot of historical ideas wrong, but we all do understand certain basics. Separate social roles/specialization, how communities can organize, etc. Anyway, the game needs to be playable, so cash economy, little racism against other demi-humans (strongly doubt that one would exist, lol), equality of the sexes, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8335680, member: 82106"] Yeah, obviously gold is not terribly realistic. OTOH cash was quite a bit more prevalent than traditional ideas about 'Dark Age Europe' make room for. In fact historians of Medieval Europe will laugh you out of the room if you utter that phrase in their presence these days. Now, obviously 6th Century North Western Europe was not in general a place where cash was commonplace in everyday life, such as it is in D&D games, typically. OTOH even the 5th Century Saxon 'kings' issued coinage. It was mostly silver of course, though gold coins did exist in all periods and were minted from time-to-time. The Romans definitely minted them too. Random people who play D&D obviously get a lot of historical ideas wrong, but we all do understand certain basics. Separate social roles/specialization, how communities can organize, etc. Anyway, the game needs to be playable, so cash economy, little racism against other demi-humans (strongly doubt that one would exist, lol), equality of the sexes, etc. [/QUOTE]

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