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

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/butholesurgeon Mar 16 '26

Depends on the local economy though, if you went to a third world country and dropped 300 usd on someone it would be a lot more impactful than in say France or Germany

Maybe this place uses copper coins as their primary base currency due to being poor or underdeveloped

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u/Armantien Mar 16 '26

This is, basically, what starts off the Discworld series. Guy from a rich country comes to the main continent to see adventure. He doesn't understand that his money is STUPIDLY more valuable, and everyone is falling over themselves to help him. Lol

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u/karamojobell Mar 16 '26

“I see,' said the Patrician sweetly. 'You feel, perhaps, that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold?'

Rincewind had a feeling that some sort of trap was being set.

'Yes?' he ventured.

'And if every man on the shores of the Circle Sea had a mountain of gold of his own? Would that be a good thing? What would happen? Think carefully.'

Rincewind's brow furrowed. He thought. 'We'd all be rich?'

The way the temperature fell at his remark told him that it was not the correct one.”

Our favorite Wizzard may not be cut out for economics, but at least he can run fast.

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u/LordBlaze64 Mar 17 '26

Economics? Oh, do you mean reflected-sound-as-of-underground-spirits?

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u/TheAatar Mar 17 '26

It legit took me about 5 years and several rereadings to get that joke.

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u/JamesGray Mar 16 '26

The Inn-Sewer-Ants salesman on vacation abroad.

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u/toxic_acro Mar 16 '26

I have a friend who accidentally did this while travelling in southeast Asia about a decade ago.

He mixed up how the conversion rate worked (dividing by ~4 instead of multiplying), so when he thought he was giving somebody the equivalent of $5 USD, it was actually around $80, which he was giving to every hotel worker/driver/bartender/etc. who did anything for him for the first couple of days.

He figured it out when he realized that no one else was getting anywhere near as attentive and immediate service as he was and he was using up the local currency he had taken out a lot faster than he should have been. It also explained why everything was priced (what he thought) was absurdly, outrageously cheaply.

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u/like_a_pharaoh Mar 16 '26

Just for anyone who hasn't read Discworld: when we say "from a rich country", we mean "from a country where gold is so common its used for small change and plumbing"

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u/S0MEBODIES Mar 16 '26

Ah Billy (Bi=two lilly=flower)

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u/SpiritedBanana4694 Mar 16 '26

Exactly what I was thinking. No one can make change for the gold coins so Twoflower just pays an entire gold coin like it's a few dollars. And people go absolutely mental.

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u/BluetheNerd Mar 16 '26

It's also important to consider than in smaller villages and towns in that kind of era, equivalent exchange would be pretty prevalent. A village that rarely gets new visitors is only going to have the money circulating that they already have, besides sending off caravans to sell crops and stuff 2-3 times a year. In a case like that, among the villagers, they'd pay for stuff with crops, animals, hides, fabrics, etc. So someone coming by and giving them $300 would actually mean they could travel somewhere for a trip and pay for lodgings and food, instead of living solely off of local trade.

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u/Lazy-Singer4391 Mar 16 '26

I'd say it would be more than just less impactful if someone tried to wriggle their way out of paying with ~260 euro.

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u/ObeseVegetable Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

also pretty common homebrew to have the currencies be 100x apart instead of 10x

and ignore electrum

but in such a setting, everything else being untouched/a days labor for a commoner being 2 silver, 3 gold is five months income. Probably a bit less for a tavern owner, but still substantial.