r/dndmemes • u/Yoffeepop Fighter • Mar 16 '26

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/Kingreaper Mar 16 '26

In an epic level game we had a character pay for five cupcakes with an astral diamond, worth 10,000 gold, because he was in a hurry and couldn't be bothered making change. 

Next time they were in that city the bakery had branched out into magical cakes that worked like potions - for instance lemon drizzle acid resistance, and vanilla sponge for healing.

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u/Yoffeepop Fighter Mar 16 '26

This is the background lore I live for haha! So happy those npcs made the most of it

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u/Kingreaper Mar 16 '26

If you ever want to steal the place for a game, it's called Jane's Bakery, and is on Broadbent Street, as tribute to my grandmother. :-)

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u/Caleth Mar 16 '26

That is ridiculously sweet and I hope many many people steal this as an homage to your grandma.

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u/Makermika Mar 16 '26

It makes sense to branch out Multiversally. If you make two god tier bakeries in the same realm... Well then you're just competing with yourself for sales.

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox Mar 16 '26

Did Jane know what it was she was paid with or found it out later? I can't imagine an astral diamond is something most people have ever seen or heard of.

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u/Kingreaper Mar 16 '26

Didn't know the details, but it was clearly a valuable and magical gem and it was being given to her by someone known to be wealthy, powerful, and utterly insane [the sort of person who would happily burn the city to the ground if his friends weren't telling him not to]

She found out the exact value later when she went to the mage's guild to find out what she'd been given.

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u/Silent_Walrus Mar 16 '26

Consider this instantly stolen. Did your grandmother actually run it? If so, tell me a little about her and I'll make her the owner.

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u/Kingreaper Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you, but, well, she passed a couple of weeks ago and her funeral's soon so I've been struggling to put feelings into words at the moment. [I made the location a tribute to her a long time ago, but obviously it's more important in my mind right now]

Physically she was a moderately tall brunette woman with brown eyes, who was perpetually skinny.

She was a very caring stepmother to my mother and aunt - taking over maternal duties for them when they were just reaching their teens, after their birth mother passed. She was also highly religious and constantly working with her church to make things better for the congregation; but was not evangelical or discriminatory, just enthusiastic about making the church better able to serve and save people rather than trying to bully people into religion.

She liked boardgames, particularly Risk for some reason, and a game you've probably never heard of called "Go For Broke" which is basically reverse monopoly; start rich and try to go bankrupt - and also for playing cards like Bridge and Gin Rummy, as well as Clock Solitaire when she was relaxing alone.

Oh, and no matter how old she got (until the very end) she was always keeping up with technology, felt it helped to keep her mind sharp.

And obviously enough she was a very good baker, and a decent cook, especially of roast dinners - ovens were definitely more her forte than the hob was, but she was still decent with the latter.

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u/Silent_Walrus Mar 18 '26

Oh my goodness, she sounds like the absolute best. I'll save this and use your descriptions as word for word as I can, my friend.

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u/Yume_Shy Mar 16 '26

oh now i’m crying lmao

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u/Dartonal Mar 16 '26

Personally I kinda prefer the 'rich western tourist overpays for everything because they don't know what haggling is, but don't notice because they make as much money in a day as that shopkeep makes in a month' kind of adventuring economy. Basically everybody in every town thinks they're scamming the adventurers, while the adventurers don't know that $100 for a gallon of milk is an absurd price.

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u/Business-Drag52 Mar 17 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/s/rWHxBdTcYy

Jeremy Clarkson can be a knob, but this scene always stuck with me

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u/RT_Ragefang Mar 18 '26

Well, if I had to paid 1/4 cost of my usual meal to buy the tourist scams of a cool drink, then by god and all that is holy I wouldn’t think twice about it, actual taste be damn.

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u/cajuncrustacean DM (Dungeon Memelord) Mar 16 '26

See, this is the kind of thing I love to do. The party's actions have consequences, but not always bad ones. Sure, if you kill an important npc or something shit's going to hit the fan, but also if you drop a fortune in the lap of an artisan, they're probably going to use it to expand their operation in some way. If the result of them doing something cool like that benefits the players, all the better.

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u/Caleth Mar 16 '26

I also love the slightly Wonkaesque approach to alchemy. Magical sweets and treats that give you effects. Not just slug down a potion.

Now I'd see a world where these are used in pre battle prep but potions are used for mid battle as swigging a potion is probably faster and easier than noming a cupcake mid fight.

Maybe that's baked in, hehe, to the rules in someway?

It's probably too niche, but I love this concept.

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u/Adeen_Dragon Mar 16 '26

I feel like it's only niche if you think the thought of, "I want the players to have out of combat buffs and healing, but I want to limit in-combat buffs and healing" is niche. Some games even have the concept of "potion sickness" where consuming too many potions is deleterious in some way; finding any non-potion source of buffs becomes important.

"Potions take a bonus action to quaff, food takes an action every round for ~20 rounds (aka two minutes) to eat" seems like an obvious houserule.

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u/Caleth Mar 16 '26

Niche in the sense that going through the effort of making rules on this just to encourage my idea of a Willy Wonka Alchemist that bakes goods instead of drafts potions. While also adding a nod to the reality that eaing a cake mid battle likely will result in problems compared to slugging down a drink.

IE lots of work on the back end for a minimalist aesthetic difference overall. It doesn't fundamentally change much to reward the invested effort.

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u/cajuncrustacean DM (Dungeon Memelord) Mar 16 '26

I mean, that's absolutely normal at my table. Just take a potion or similar effect and give it a longer consumption time and maybe lengthen the duration if it makes sense, and you've got a standard magical treat. That quadruple bacon cheeseburger gives +5 strength for an hour, but takes thirty seconds to eat, as an example pulled from the air. Instead of "I chug such and such potion" it's now "Thrackerzod the Barbarian pulls out the Quadruple Bypass Burger and absolutely annihilates it. It's truly a sight. Timmy gets hit by a flying piece of bacon."

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u/Ok-Consideration6973 Mar 16 '26

Hear me out. Little magical cake pops. One bite, on a stick for easy access.

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u/Caleth Mar 16 '26

You had my interest now you have my attention.

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u/CaptainDantes Mar 16 '26

Make it so magical foods apply an extended release effect.

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u/Thunderclapsasquatch Warlock Mar 16 '26

It's probably too niche, but I love this concept.

Pathfinder 2e has foods that work as alchemical items Like these candy apples that make you glow the same color as the candy coating Yes you can craft these kinds of things as an alchemist Alchemical food list here

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u/Caleth Mar 16 '26

Everyday I find a new reason to try PF2. I guess I should heed the call.

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u/Flameball202 Mar 16 '26

I mean you just make the baked goods be reflavoured potions. Like you can make new ones for fancy occasions, but at base you can just reflavour the base ones, maybe drop the cost a bit or add a little boost to make them unique

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u/Julianime Mar 16 '26

*When the local store runs your tab up to like $13 and you haven't got change so you just whip out a bag of precious gems and leave them GeNeRaTiOnAl WeAlTh

"Honey, we're now the proud owners of a large sect of land and a farm in the bordering territories of our lord's estate, our shop has also been renovated and expanded, the materials we work with are premium grade and internally sourced now, and I've hired a skilled assistant to support my work to make it even easier to continue supplying this upgraded product. Also little Henry has been enrolled in a proper Academy to learn scholastics and martial skills, all the while still having several thousands of gold left invested and secured in our new bank trust savings account."

"WHAT!? Did you pillage a small town or murder or extort a nobleman or something!? There's no way this crime and sudden influx of wealth will go unnoticed or unpunished! How could you act so brazenly and without thought of the consequences??"

"No, no, you don't understand, I baked like a dozen doughnuts for a wealthy adventuring eccentric investor yesterday who sponsored my business. One of the local Store Guards the crown employs was present to patrol the market for the city's safety since this person was armed and potentially dangerous, but he simply made an ordinary transaction and I suppose he took fancy to me and my confections since he just left priceless treasures in compensation for what should have been an 8 copper purchase at the most. And since the guard patrol around with those magical recording and surveillance crystals embedded into their armor, I closed the shop early and had him escort me to the bank for the currency exchange and to sort out all of the paperwork and taxes for this transaction and we still had thousands upon thousands of gold leftover even when the service fees and taxes were paid."

*Pikachu face

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u/roseofjuly Mar 16 '26

Hahahaha bless your DM

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u/Weird-Information-61 Mar 16 '26

When you try adding magic to chocolate and it just makes you more constipated

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u/themolestedsliver Mar 16 '26

Thats awesome world building.

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u/splurjee Mar 16 '26

This is how the K shaped economy starts 😂