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<blockquote data-quote="Bardsandsages" data-source="post: 3127372" data-attributes="member: 28771">In reality, most of the time if the party is in an isolated village, gold coins have little value anyway.&nbsp; Small communities in the dark ages and middle ages typically worked on a barter system anyway.&nbsp; If you are a hundred miles from the nearest city, you don't want gold coins.&nbsp; You want food, hides, weapons, tools, etc.&nbsp; Just because a community doesn't have hard currency, does not mean it does not have some sort of compensation system in place.&nbsp; A farmer would trade wool or cotton to the seamstress in exchange for clothes, who in turn would exchange clothes and blankets to the woodworker to make a cabinet, who in turn would help raise a barn in exchange for having a place to stable his horse.&nbsp; If you didn't have a skill, then you had nothing to trade, and therefore you would be just as impoverished as if you had no money in the city.In such a game, professions and craft skills become very valuable to the PCs.&nbsp; In reality, this is really how D&amp;D SHOULD be played.&nbsp; Less gold coins, more hard goods and services.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bardsandsages, post: 3127372, member: 28771"] In reality, most of the time if the party is in an isolated village, gold coins have little value anyway. Small communities in the dark ages and middle ages typically worked on a barter system anyway. If you are a hundred miles from the nearest city, you don't want gold coins. You want food, hides, weapons, tools, etc. Just because a community doesn't have hard currency, does not mean it does not have some sort of compensation system in place. A farmer would trade wool or cotton to the seamstress in exchange for clothes, who in turn would exchange clothes and blankets to the woodworker to make a cabinet, who in turn would help raise a barn in exchange for having a place to stable his horse. If you didn't have a skill, then you had nothing to trade, and therefore you would be just as impoverished as if you had no money in the city. In such a game, professions and craft skills become very valuable to the PCs. In reality, this is really how D&D SHOULD be played. Less gold coins, more hard goods and services. [/QUOTE]

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