I never liked how utterly inflated gold as a currency always was in Dungeons and Dragons. I have had a long established house rule that reduced all gold outputs (and all gold costs) significantly enough where it was no longer a thing where you could almost make a house out of gold for the price of buying that house in the rules as written.

Also, in a fantasy setting with magic and the like, it's absurd to try to pretend that magic items would remain as super rare after centuries or even millennia of adventurers rummaging around and eventually putting them on the market.

The bullshit about how peasants would have to work all day for a silver piece but somehow a +1 sword costs roughly a lifetime of their labor was always silly.

Don't even get me started about how bullshit "Forgotten Realms" is as written where (the older books at least) claim that most people have never seen a spell being cast before and are in absolute awe of magic-users yet magic-users rule basically everything and it's hard to find an official town map without some magic bullshit somewhere.

The Elder Scrolls series, flaws and all, is generally better about applying magic to its world-building.

It's shiny though

I've always struggled with Gold Coins in D&D. I think it's because of the roots of the game, where in the earliest editions, Gold was your Experience Points, and you only gained Experience Points if you could get the gold out of the dungeon.

As the editions came out, the game became less of a dungeon crawl and more of an action movie simulator. Especially with 4E and 5E. I don't know in what edition they decoupled Experience from Gold, but that is probably when the Gold stopped making any sense. Just try finding an answer to the question "What are the wages of commoners per day/week/year". You'll get nowhere.

Once players have thousands and thousands of gold, most of the time, unless you've really invested in making it part of the game, they won't even spend it. What are they going to buy with gold that's better or more interesting than the items you've placed in the dangerous places? It puts you in this position where you either allow them to buy magic items or not. Being able to buy a +1 weapon has implications for your entire world.

I could write forever about this. The lack of guidance from Wizards is part of the problem. I think the next time I run a game of "D&D" it'll be one of these OSR games like Knave or what have you.

Have you seen what an economy based on SoJs and HRs looks like?

Wtb alteration orbs 1500/div

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