11-14-2017, 08:39 PM | #11 |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
I just post everything in silver pennies ($4) (1d) with one high value coin the gold crown worth 320d. (1 oz coin, 20 silver to 1 gold). The gold crown makes the player go wow and everything in silver pennies make it easy to buy things on the price list.
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11-14-2017, 09:51 PM | #12 | |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
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I've even done a little two-digit multiplication! ...Didn't get over B * B. And, seriously, it has some major advantages over decimal. 10, 8, 4, 2, 1, 0.8, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1, 0.08... 10, 4, 2, and yeah it gets hairy after that, but 1.66274 is not any harder to remember than 1.41421. OTOH, 10, 5, 2.5, 1.25, 0.625, 0.3125, 15625... Or 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024... Compare to: 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 20, 40, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000... The rest is number sense. And barring missing digits, you can count it on all fingers and both thumbs, which is important for early learning. First thumb, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, second thumb, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10. Gets you six more digits than just linear counting on your digits. |
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11-14-2017, 10:23 PM | #13 | |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
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As a mathematician friend of mine once pointed out, a dozen is a handier base than ten. 12 divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Ten divides evenly by only 2 and 5. That's one reason hours have 60 minutes - being evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4 is useful. As for the topic at hand, I always create monetary units for my campaigns. In the current campaign, the coins are worth $1 (copper), $25 (silver), and $100 (gold). Large amounts of wealth are moved about in gems, though. And the merchant houses in civilized areas honor each other's letters of credit, for a reasonable fee. That lets merchants move down caravan routes with a letter rather than a strongbox.
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11-14-2017, 10:29 PM | #14 |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
Note that the DFRPG has values for coinage on Adventurers p. 95
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11-14-2017, 11:05 PM | #15 |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
I can count up to 1024 with both hands. This concludes my tangent.
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11-15-2017, 10:16 AM | #16 | |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
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I suppose ₯ (drachma) or &dram; (drams) would work too.
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11-15-2017, 10:47 AM | #17 | |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
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In my DFRPG group, I use the word "dollar" interchangeably with "copper penny". Most of my players have a lot of Pathfinder and D&D experience, so I need to distinguish a "$" value from "gp", which has a much higher "$" value in DFRPG.
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11-15-2017, 11:01 AM | #18 |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
I frequently use the term 'moneys'
The idea of copper being the base money is weird, I'm used to copper being the fractional money |
11-15-2017, 11:50 AM | #19 |
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Re: The use of DOLLARS not a fantasy/medieval money system. WHY???
I'm for the hexadecimal system of moneys.
Nothing says Dungeon Fantasy like Digital dwarves building binary byte memory machinery from 0-F.
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11-15-2017, 12:36 PM | #20 |
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