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Old 11-14-2017, 07:22 PM   #9
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???

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Originally Posted by Kromm View Post
I'm still trying to figure out where the word "dollar" appears in the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, its add-ons, and its stretch-goal items. The symbol "$" appears, sure, but that means "standard copper piece" (Adventurers, p. 95).
I'm an American. I read "$" as "dollars" whether or not there's an explicit statement to tell me to do so, just as I read "6'6"" as "six feet six." Or for that matter, just as I read "17" as "seventeen" and not as "dix-sept" or "jushichi."

On the other hand, in my current fantasy campaign (which isn't dungeon fantasy, though!), I told the players at the first session that no one had invented coinage, and that "$1000" stood for a pound of silver weighed in a balance.
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