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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He's not making gold, he's making useful things he sells for gold. Fabricate turns an equivalent value of raw material into a crafted object, so to make 50 lbs of gold bars you'd need 50lbs of gold, but to make a piece of furniture you'd just need part of a tree and 10 minutes.

Just as a note, there's actually too much gold that exists in the Forgotten Realms. IRL humans have only mined 187,000 metric tons of gold, and 2/3 of that was mined since 1950. Without getting into the nitty gritty too much, let's just say there's not nearly enough gold for every monster to have even a small collection of coins, much less every adult dragon falling asleep on a golden pile while everyone else works just fine on a gold standard or something like it.

Is it the dwarven kingdoms out mining humanity? Is gold simply more common or perhaps available in easier, more concentrated ores?

Or are wizards adding more gold from thin air, and dragons provide a natural deflationary pressure by being obsessed with making great hoards of coins?

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 21 points 10 months ago

So you're saying the wizards and dragons are coordinating their efforts in an attempt to keep scarcity artificially high?

I KNEW IT

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Relax, they're just implementing rational monetary policy to keep the economy healthy.

Of course their version of inflation reduction involves dragons burning down a significant part of the land, but it works. Nobody is complaining about the price of groceries anyway.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago

Well, they are, but the town guards beat them if they try to protest.

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Is it the dwarven kingdoms out mining humanity? Is gold simply more common or perhaps available in easier, more concentrated ores?

Probably a bit of both I'd imagine.

[-] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago

There's a limit to what people can afford to buy, though. "Hey I made this sweet artifact it's worth 1000gp" "Cool, I can give you uhhh...THREE chickens for it?"

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