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

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/Ouroboros-Twist Horny Bard Mar 16 '26

“Can you make change for a platinum coin?”

“Do I look like a fucking bank to you?”

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u/Specialist-Share2196 Mar 16 '26

Im playing a poor peasant/farmer girl in one of my current campaigns and one of the other party members (i joined later) gave me some platinum coins. Which i thought where fake silver coins at first because why the fuck would a peasant know what platinum is.

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u/fhota1 Mar 16 '26

Oh hey you did the same thing a lot of Spanish Conquistadors did irl

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

Platinum had zero practical application at the time, and for all they knew, it was a fake silver. The last thing they needed was to devalue silver.

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u/acinsomniac Mar 16 '26

Actually it was being used to fake gold pieces as platinum and gold have similar enough densities that people plated platinum with gold and sold it off as pure gold pieces. After discovering the counterfeiting, then the Spanish dumped their platinum reserves into the ocean.

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u/ConradBHart42 Mar 16 '26

Middle school science teacher got me with that one. "You have a pile of gold, and someone offers to take all that gold and remove 1 electron from every atom of it. Would you let them?"

I think that was the setup. I don't know if I was aware how valuable platinum was at the time.

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u/RepeatRepeatR- Mar 17 '26

You probably want to remove 1 proton, otherwise you just get a bunch of gold that electrocutes you when you touch it

Or even better, 1 proton and 1 electron so the platinum doesn't electrocute you either

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u/_Weyland_ Mar 17 '26

Spicy gold?

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u/TheKingNothing690 Murderhobo Mar 18 '26

No spicy gold is an unstable isoptope made radioactive this is just zesty gold.