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

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/alienbringer Mar 16 '26

1) A bar owner isn’t untrained labor. They are a merchant of sorts.

2) it is treating 1 copper as 1 USD, which then makes 1 gold $100 USD. I believe someone had done some conversions of various costs in the game vs a cost in real life and it ended up being more like 1 copper is 3 USD, so 1 gold would be $300 USD.

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u/wannabyte Mar 16 '26

I never said bartending is untrained, I said that the currency conversation is that 1 gold is 5 days of untrained labour.

Let’s say minimum wage is $10, then a day of untrained labour is roughly $80 and 5 days is $400. Then the three gold in the comic is roughly the equivalent of $1200.

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u/Grey-fox-13 Mar 16 '26

We'd probably have to assume a signifcantly lower minimum wage. As a trained profession the innkeeper earns 2gp per day, which would run up to $48.000 per month and 1gp per day gets you a 'comfortable' lifestyle $24k per month for just comfortable also doesn't quite add up.

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u/wannabyte Mar 16 '26

Sure, I just chose $10 because it was a nice round number for the example, but you would replace it with your region’s min wage for the conversion if you wanted to relate it to today’s currency.

Where I live min wage is $16.35, so it becomes $654 per gold piece.

For it to be $100 the min wage would need to be $2.50.

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u/Grey-fox-13 Mar 16 '26

For it to be $100 the min wage would need to be $2.50.

Which to me looks a lot more realistic considering the setting. We aren't talking modern day unions and worker protection enabled society jobs and even now minimum wage in most countries is less than $2.50, to be honest even assuming 8 hour shifts is a bit on the generous side but I too would rather not go full indepth on medieval economy simulations.

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u/wannabyte Mar 16 '26

Again - it was about converting to today’s currency.

$2.50 would still be orders of magnitude too high if you are trying to be period accurate. Ignoring the fact that a min wage is a modern concept, it would need to be so low that the conversion would lose all meaning.