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Use code SHADIVERSITY14 to get up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes, plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3iORQuB In this episode of #FunctionalFandom we see how many GOLD COINS an adventurer could practically carry in real life, TESTED WITH REAL COINS!If you like the content and want to support the channel, you’re welcome to do so through patreon or subscribe star: https://www.patreon.com/shadiversity https://www.subscribestar.com/shadiversityMy novel, Shadow of the Conqueror Audio Book affiliate links: US: https://www.audible.com/shadbrooks UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/shadbrooks CA: https://www.audible.ca/shadbrooks AU: https://www.audible.com.au/shadbrooksEbook, Paperback and Hardcover available from most major book retailers, here are a few of the main ones: Amazon affiliate link (be sure to navigate to your country’s amazon site): https://amzn.to/2XErUaR Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shadow-of-the-conqueror-shad-m-brooks/1132130546 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/shadow-of-the-conquerorCome check out my new channel GAME KNIGHT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubCObW93mbrIFoxwNamFFw/featuredAwesome Shirts and chainmail print clothing: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/shadiversityCommunity run discord server: https://discord.gg/a3NJVh7My official website: https://www.shadmbrooks.com/
Just in case you missed it, the Australian to U.S. exchange rate shown in the video was a joke, we know it’s not that bad. . . but it certainly feels like it sometimes ^_^
Also the weights and numbers given in this video are to demonstrate rough estimates, the size of gold coins in any given setting will also determine how heavy the coins would weigh. For instance if the gold coins were half the width of the ones we’re using as place holders in this video, you could carry twice as many coins for the same weight.
I would like to point out that the US does still have 1 dollar coins. They are however not in common use in most cases though they are legitimate currency within the US. And are often collected due to the rarity of them being used as currency. They are only actually worth a dollar but people who collect coins also collect them for some reason. But yes the US has 1 dollar coins . The current minted coins are the Sacagawea dollar circa 2000 to present. Presidential dollar coins minted circa 2007 -2016 and again in 2020 .
On July 20th 2018 then President Trump signed the American Innovation Dollar Coin Act into law. Which is a program that calls for the release /minting of four new coins each year starting in 2019 through 2032 . ” honoring Innovation and Innovators by issuing $1 coins for each of the 50 states, District of Columbia aka Washington D.C. and the five US territories . A introductory coin of George Washington signing the first US patent into law was released in December of 2018. So yeah the US still has $ 1 coins . They are just not a commonly used currency. Paper or more accurately fabric dollars are easier and cheaper to produce.
Frankly, I see little point in counting the number of coins (as they could have very different weight, roughly from 1,5 g to 30 g, and value – the value being typically equivalent or nearly equivalent to the value of the gold contained in them). The main question is how much gold can an adventurer carry (basically, as much as any other cargo) and what would it cost in the fantasy world we’re considering (that’s complicated, of course, as costs of many things weren’t proportional to the modern prices).
Noticed you do not have a campfire pan holder to hold your pans up and out of the campfire if you want I’ll be happy to make you one.
At 11:07
Weight….
First off you’re not weighing the coins, you are massing the coins and bag. If you want to weigh them, you would have to use Newtons or pounds…. The imperial unit for Mass is slugs by the way.
That aside, you are are weighing the coins and the pouch, you need to weigh the pouch then weigh the coins and the pouch then subtract the pouch from the weight of the coins and the pouch to find the weight of the coins. You need to do that for each pouch because the pouches each will weigh different amounts.
After all, you were just trying to find out how much gold an adventure can carry, not how much gold and pouches….
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Monte
At 21:55
“Gold” coins….
The USA does have gold colored $1 coins, look up the modern dollar coins in the presidential line. They have a line made with the likeness of each of the deceased presidents….
The US penny costs about two and a half to three cents to make. The US used to have a half penny back in the latter half of the 1800s it was discontinued as not being worth minting. At the time I heard that information, three or four years ago, the purchasing power of the half penny was equivalent to the then modern dime….. There is calls to get rid of the penny.
General problems I see going through the video:
1. The exchange of gold to modern equivalents does not easily exist, due to things like fiat and rocketships.
2. I think some real specificity needs to go into the KIND of fantasy adventurers you’re criticizing. A lot of the assumptions about say, a SKYRIM adventurer, does not hold true for a 5e adventurer. And even less so for a AD&D adventurer. The rise of video game culture has inflicted massive problems to the TTRPG scene, where “look for button” style play took off. As well as the attitude of “ugh, I don’t want to worry about encumbrance or logistics.”
3. A follow up, the consideration of pre-VG RPGs, is that gold doesn’t buy everything. Gems, artwork, rare coinage, magic items, and like things are also means of holding value that are more compact than yeah, carrying around a million GP. A million GP is too abstractly large for coinage really.
4. THe assumption the adventurer is alone and/or on foot. A horse is a huge asset (and moneysink.) Few adventurers will be solo, and even fewer won’t have a packmule of some kind.
5. Gold is the standard bearer for high value. Platinum has too many syllables.
Might be worth saying silvers have the value of a gold, coppers have the value of a silver and use iron coins instead of coppers. That way I can still use the standard D&D prices and just say gold is now worth ten times as much. That way players could realistically carry large amounts of coins.
Gold is obscenely heavy, like heavier than lead. I love scenes in heist movies where they load multiple bars into a duffle bag. In reality back would rip even if Vin Diesel could lift it.
Actually yes i have found Gold, Silver and Copper as well as various gems and items made of precious/magical materials in a dragon’s lair, our Dungeon Master actually did make a realistic treasure find for us every time… (note this was as far back as AD&D 2nd Ed.) wish more players would experience the realism of weight in their games, it does change the way you play and experience the setting and your character.
When I run a game, whenever my players find treasure the coins tend to be split up among small bags. I’m glad to see I was on the right track.
How many reeses pieces could an adventurer carry?
We still have dollar coins (copper alloy i think) in the US. They’re not common but I wouldn’t say they’re uncommon enough to be worth anything extra. As far as I know all machines still recognize and take dollar coins.
1000 Australian is a little more than 25 usd as far as I’m aware😂
we do have a dollar coin in the us. its called the Sacagawea Dollar and is gold colored and a bit larger than a quarter.
That’s why you have to be a Lannister. All you have to do is say “we always pay our debts” there you go. Also you forgot the trick pouch in the rear end. Gotta put a piece or two incase you get looted.
This is hilarious. I completely overlooked encumbered movement as a DM. Missed a chance to make adventurers miserable
With Regards to D&D:
1. A lot of gold prices are the INFLATED prices for Adventurer’s, because people knew they had MONEY. Just like Foreigners in a 3rd world country get screwed by locals on prices.
2. An unskilled laborer in D&D (In a rural or village setting) was paid 1 silver piece per DAY of hard labor. Sunup to Sundown, 1 Silver Piece for a day.
So yeah.. when you look in the player’s handbook that a basic meal costs 1 silver, you know that the peasant laborer making 1 silver per day is not spending his entire 1 silver wage for a poor meal, let alone 2 silver for a poor inn lodging for the night… Most prices in the player’s handbook would likely be 1/10th listed for what the common man would pay. So a day laborer paying 1 copper each meal (3 cp /day) and 2 copper for a bed at night would still have (1 silver = 10 copper) so 10cp – (3+2 [5]) = 5 cp remaining at the end of his ‘expenses’ to save up.
Also, D&D had GEMS…. Cut gems weighed less than a coin, but were valued between 10gp – 5,000 gp each. So an adventurer that had a large purchase could have used gems to transport it.
Finally… Well, everyone had “Bags of Holding” anyway really.
A rich adventurer would have horses mules, squires, servants etc and wouldn’t have to worry about weight.
The reason fantasy adventurers have infinite gold is they have a purse of holding, like the bag of holding, but can only hold coin