Hello, 

I have a question. I'm attempting to create a "Homebrew Background" (Private) only to discover that I can't add Copper, Silver, Electrum or Platinum to the Starting background. Only "Gold" is applicable "Associated data type" withing the "Edit your equipment tab" and appears successfully to our coin count when creating a new finished character sheet. Whenever I attempt to add a Silver piece (for example) it appears under "Other possessions" and I then have to edit my character sheet manually. I want to remove the hassle of adding it twice.

Does the secret lie in the a custom variant" or "instructional text" within "Edit your equipment tab"? or is it simply because the need hasn't arisen to diversify this (since its just easier to enter it manually) Because I notice the other backgrounds only have Gold pieces per the starting equipment. To illustrate the point; Acolyte = 15Gp, Folk Hero = 10Gp, Hermit= 5Gp, Entertainer = 15Gp .... (referencing of the PHB pages 127-141). or is it as simple as. I don't currently subscribe to Dnd Beyond. Do I need to subscribe to reap these benefits?

Is there something I'm missing, Is it possible to add Copper, Silver, Electrum or Platinum to your starting equipment?

I'd appreciate any and all idea's and input.

I'm pretty sure the issue is that none of the official backgrounds provide anything but GP in terms of money.  The homebrew tools are just a modified version of the tools the developers use to add new content to the toolset, and as a general rule they are only designed to accommodate mechanics and features that show up in official content.  Eventually, they plan to massively overhaul the homebrew system for us, but a variety of things keep popping up that have a higher priority, including, but not limited to: 1) user base growth that outstripped their server capacity, forcing a migration,  2) that same growth combined with new features they want to implement meant they are having to massively restructure the databases and migrate parts of their stack to a different structure/service, and 3) WOTC keeps throwing new mechanics at them, most notably Tasha's, and they are still trying to implement some of those mechanics.

Well, technically the Haunted One background comes with 1sp, but that’s mostly symbolic so if it goes under additional items it’s not a big deal.

This is actually the very first I’ve ever heard of anyone actually requesting smaller denominations than gp from their background. Most older players remember the nightmare of having to lug hundreds of thousands of gold value all in copper pieces from a horde back to base camp. That’s precisely why whoever played Tenser invented their famous [Tooltip Not Found] spell in the first place. A lot of newer players don’t bother tracking encumbrance especially for coin weight, so it’s not really ever been an issue it’s all just monies. Also, since ‘Merica never adopted the metric system, converting coins in D&D is actually tedious for most players. (I know you just move the decimal point left and right, but if people realized it was that easy they wouldn’t have invented tip calculators to figure out how much to leave your food servers.) Besides, after the first tier of play anything actually worth buying costs 50gp+, and even in the first tier there’s really not much to buy for the 5-15gp most backgrounds grant. Also, DMs frankly don’t bother to track every last coin their players have. 🤷‍♂️

Hey, thank you both ever so much for taking the time to explain.