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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2017, 12:50:09 AM »
during the era where Jesus ran around a gold coin could only buy thirty-two dead sparrows
While I appreciate the detailed answer, this part of it is not correct. Two sparrows could be purchased for an as, with 16 asses in a denarius, which was a silver coin. The gold coin (aureus) was worth twenty-five denarii, and thus could purchase 800 sparrows.

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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2017, 02:12:00 PM »
 :??? ... so

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2 sparrows = 1 donkey copper piece
16 donkeys copper pieces = 1 silver piece
25 silver pieces = 1 gold piece

Donkeys can be explained by massive inflation and/or the over-printing of money ... edit --- via gold tricks even being used by the npcs.
Gold can be explained by too many npcs + pcs going out and making serious treasure, flooding the local markets ... something akin to Mansa Musa showing up in the Middle East with more gold than ever existed before in the history of the world.

Maybe the over-printing of money, is the seed gift at the start of every npc + pc's career.
Npcs that you can kill, have Walking Around money.
Npcs that mostly you can't kill or won't be killing, have Net Worths.

There's some local money supply (roughly the equivalent to "M1" ).
There's some sort of local transaction economy, that on occasion needs
Punpun to swoop in with piles of wishes, to straighten out the kinked up money flows.

the Price To Earnings ratio of each individual commoner
(which assumes something like a distasteful serf/slave valuation)
is a massive Price Fixing / Collusion.
Luckily punpun fixes this too.
« Last Edit: April 10, 2017, 05:21:28 PM by awaken_D_M_golem »
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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2017, 02:30:45 PM »
:??? ... so
2 sparrows = 1 donkey
aDMg, I know you are just being yourself right now, but the "as" was a copper coin, not an animal.  ;)
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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2017, 05:18:55 PM »
Oops my bad.

I should paraphrase president Clinton :  It depends on what the meaning of @ss is.  Oh you said As, well that too.
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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2017, 11:45:27 AM »
While I appreciate the detailed answer, this part of it is not correct. Two sparrows could be purchased for an as, with 16 asses in a denarius, which was a silver coin. The gold coin (aureus) was worth twenty-five denarii, and thus could purchase 800 sparrows.
Ahh I thought a denarius was gold.

Repoking into the subject, already wiped history, and my new search phase turned up a better hit.
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The Romans in BC24 standardized their coinage and this included gold
coins. The table was prepared for Roman Britain, but the relationship
of the values would have been similar for Judea. So from this you can
see that 1 gold aureus equalled 25 silver denarius (If the table have
not formatted properly, please refer to the web site.)
aureus denarius sestertius dupondius as semis quadrans
(gold) (silver) (brass) (brass) (copper) (brass) (copper)
     1       25     100      200    400     800    1600
              1       4        8     16      32      64
                      1        2      4       8      16
                               1      2       4       8
                                      1       2       4
                                              1       2
« Last Edit: April 12, 2017, 11:48:18 AM by SorO_Lost »

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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2017, 01:02:42 PM »
Further, my equation earlier didn't take into account that while two sparrows are one as, you can get five for two (buy four sparrows, get one free!). At that price, one gold coin would get you one thousand sparrows.

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Re: Has anyone ever done an overhaul of the D&D Economy?
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2017, 01:56:19 AM »
The comments in these two comics fits rather nicely in this ...discussion.

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