[Updated] - FANTASY MONEY is here!

[Morrus]

You've heard about a lot of "ultimate" gaming products. You've heard of hundreds which are "essential".

Well, you're about to hear about the real deal - the actual ultimate gaming product! A product which fits into every d20 fantasy game, wherever it's set and whatever level your characters are. It's as universal as a battlemat - but cooler!

FANTASY MONEY - in one simple swoop, remove the itty bitty fiddly money management from your game! You don't need to record every silver piece spent, track money as it's passed between characters or (not that this would ever happen!) wonder if your players' wealth totals are entirely "accurate".

Because with Fantasy Money, when you spend money, all you do is hand that amount of money to the GM. And when you find treasure, he hands money to you. You don't have to track it - what you have is what you've got!

Plus, we all know how props can enhance a game. I've been using Monopoly money for months now; my players love it. I love it. Transactions are so much cooler. But I have to use Monopoly money no more, because here comes FANTASY MONEY!
[bq]If you’re looking for a quick, easy and satisfying way to handle money - all those pesky silver and gold pieces floating around your adventurers - Fantasy Money is here to help. This is a preview, containing only the 5 copper pieces cards. That’s the bad news. The good news, however: you can start printing these copper pieces right away, as they’ll be exactly the same size and feel as the ones featured in the finished product. So once you’ve got that, you won’t need to print the 5 cp cards, as you’ve already got those. Neat, huh?

All you have to do is print the cards on the following pages, cut them out, and you’re ready to go. That’s it, really.[/bq]
The link to the preview is in my sig (below). FANTASY MONEY will be available at the EN World GameStore early next week! And the best bit - this money won't cost you very much money at all!

 

[Napftor]

Very interesting! I'm surprised no one thought of these before.

 

[Morrus]

Very interesting! I'm surprised no one thought of these before.

Yup, me too. I'm proud to be the actual orginator of a concept.

It's one of those things which is just so simple, but it makes such a difference. Once I started using Monopoly money, I knew I was never going back to little numbers on a character sheet. This just makes that even better!

In addition, the "weight" of each card is on the back (coins coming in at 50 to a pound). The notes go up as high as your level of disbelief will allow - some people won't like the idea of a 50,000 GP bill, but it's entirely up to you which you use. If you really want to make your players cart around 50,000 1GP bills, you can (you'll need a lot of printer ink, though!).

The weight on the back shows you how much those 50,000 GPs weigh. If you download the preview above, a 5cp bill weighs 1/10 of a pound (because it represents, in-game, five actual copper pieces).

The bills are coloured - copper, silver, gold, platinum. Or, if you're cheap like me, you can print them in greyscale on coloured paper (I use orange, green, yellow and blue).

Every single bill type has different artwork (so a 1gp bill is different to a 5gp bill, which is different to a 10gp bill, and so on).

Below I've attached an image of the back of the above card (although you can see it also by downloading the preview).

 

[Aloïsius]

brillant idea.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Man, I love cards

In case you're wondering, I'm the guy who did the layout.


Note that the preview - like the finished product - includes two sizes: small (12 cards per page) and large (4 cards per page). Choose the version you prefer.

The bills are coloured - copper, silver, gold, platinum.

For those of you who know about those things, the illustrations are duplex images - meaning the consist of two colours: black and one other (in this case, either copper, silver (grey), ...). So while they look pretty cool if you print them in colour, printing them in greyscale won't hurt the quality at all (printing four colour images in greyscale can look kinda blurry on occasions).

Same goes for the image on the back of the cards (that's where the weight of the coins appears) - it's a duplex image of paper.

If you're using coloured paper, it's probably best to print them in greyscale.

 

[Urklore]

Not a bad idea, but myself and players hate the wizard pic. We suggest maybe the cards can have pics of a stack of coins or such?

 

[Morrus]

Not a bad idea, but myself and players hate the wizard pic. We suggest maybe the cards can have pics of a stack of coins or such?

There are 24 cards in total, each with a different picture. That's just the 5cp card you see there.

The cards included are:

Copper - 1, 5, 10, 50, 100.
Silver - 1, 5, 10, 50, 100.
Gold - 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 1,000, 10,000.
Platinum - 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 1,000, 10,000.

Each in two sizes and coloured according to "metal" type (although, of course, they look just fine in greyscale).

 

[Torin]

Great idea...I've been looking at buying sacks of plastic coins....this will certainly solve my problem. Of course, now I have to worry about sneaky players printing their own bills!

I do have to concur with the previously stated opinion on the image. This is supposed to represent a stack of coins...not paper currency so why the need for a "portrait?" I would have liked a picture of 5 coppers, stacks of 10, 100, 1000, etc. depicted on the certificate.

I am interested to see how the others turn out...maybe I just won't care after all!

Can you share prices?

 

[Morrus]

Great idea...I've been looking at buying sacks of plastic coins....this will certainly solve my problem. Of course, now I have to worry about sneaky players printing their own bills!

Well, they'd have to go through the obstacle of buying them first!

That said, my group uses cards and stuff extensively (item cards, spell cards, etc.). Each player has an envelope; they retrun the envelope to me at the end of each session. Partly this is because I don't want them to lose the card I've so paintakingly pinted and cut out, and partly because it means they can't accidentally mix thier cards up with any others that they might happen to have standing around.

I do have to concur with the previously stated opinion on the image. This is supposed to represent a stack of coins...not paper currency so why the need for a "portrait?" I would have liked a picture of 5 coppers, stacks of 10, 100, 1000, etc. depicted on the certificate.

Well, that's just a taste issue. We wanted them to be different to each other, and personally prefer the "banknote" look. Your tastes may well differ, of course!

Can you share prices?

Once I've settled on a price, I certainly will! We hope to release them next week.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Well, that's just a taste issue. We wanted them to be different to each other, and personally prefer the "banknote" look. Your tastes may well differ, of course!

What Morrus said.

The reason we made them the way we did is because of the shape of the cards. We would've made them like real coins if possible, but that'd have looked like crap after you cut them out, round as they would've been. Therefore, we made them like banknotes, without going overboard (IMO) - there's a whole lot of stuff missing from the cards to make them look like real (fantasy) banknotes.
They're meant to represent your character's money, not be it.

Additionally, if the illustrations would be stacks of coins, they'd look awfully similar, and that'd be boring