Converting $D&D to $DFRPG

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

So 1000 gp is 1000 gold coins worth $400,000?

Items, not cash. That's the whole point of what I was saying, actually: Treat a sword as a sword, a helmet as a helmet, a lantern as a lantern, and so on. Ignore the cash value of such things. Cash itself doesn't convert, so don't try.

I know the OP was asking how to convert coin found as treasure. My point is that there's no useful way to do this. Actually, if I were to do it, I'd look at how many levels of advancement the money would allow as xp equivalent/training/higher-level starting wealth in your preferred edition of D&D. I'd treat each level as 50 character points in the DFRPG. And since 50 points traded for cash, were that hypothetically allowed, would get $25,000, I'd treat each level as that much money. So if 5,000 gp would let the average PC in the campaign function at a level higher in D&D, that would be $25,000.