No pun intended, but it typically weighs the game down when you do so. No one wants to get a reward then be told, "oh, you can't move effectively now b/c you're too heavy". Everyone hates that in video games too when you need to start dropping your wood to keep your coin, etc. Either just hand waive it, or give everyone a "coin purse of holding"; like a bag of holding, but it can only accept coins and spits anything else out.
No pun intended, but it typically weighs the game down when you do so. No one wants to get a reward then be told, "oh, you can't move effectively now b/c you're too heavy". Everyone hates that in video games too when you need to start dropping your wood to keep your coin, etc. Either just hand waive it, or give everyone a "coin purse of holding"; like a bag of holding, but it can only accept coins and spits anything else out.
That was actually how the game worked back in 1e and 2e. It was the reason one friend and player of the game’s inventor created Floating Disk. His character’s name was Tenser.
Trolling players with 10,000 copper pieces has a long tradition in D&D, though I'd probably make coins 100 to a pound instead of 50 (of course, 6e has the trade goods table, so you can give them 5 tons of wheat).
Trolling players with 10,000 copper pieces has a long tradition in D&D, though I'd probably make coins 100 to a pound instead of 50 (of course, 6e has the trade goods table, so you can give them 5 tons of wheat).
My players actually received payment in grain and turnips from local farmers who did not have the money to pay in coin. They accepted it and traded it in at the trading post for some silver pieces.
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Trolling players with 10,000 copper pieces has a long tradition in D&D, though I'd probably make coins 100 to a pound instead of 50 (of course, 6e has the trade goods table, so you can give them 5 tons of wheat).
Trolling players with 10,000 copper pieces has a long tradition in D&D, though I'd probably make coins 100 to a pound instead of 50 (of course, 6e has the trade goods table, so you can give them 5 tons of wheat).
6e? Huh?
Whoops, was briefly in a discussion elsewhere about a different game system and it crossed over. 5e, of course.
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Hey DMs, do you guys use coin weights?
if so then why do you decide to use them?
No pun intended, but it typically weighs the game down when you do so. No one wants to get a reward then be told, "oh, you can't move effectively now b/c you're too heavy". Everyone hates that in video games too when you need to start dropping your wood to keep your coin, etc. Either just hand waive it, or give everyone a "coin purse of holding"; like a bag of holding, but it can only accept coins and spits anything else out.
That was actually how the game worked back in 1e and 2e. It was the reason one friend and player of the game’s inventor created Floating Disk. His character’s name was Tenser.
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Trolling players with 10,000 copper pieces has a long tradition in D&D, though I'd probably make coins 100 to a pound instead of 50 (of course, 6e has the trade goods table, so you can give them 5 tons of wheat).
My players actually received payment in grain and turnips from local farmers who did not have the money to pay in coin. They accepted it and traded it in at the trading post for some silver pieces.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
6e? Huh?
Whoops, was briefly in a discussion elsewhere about a different game system and it crossed over. 5e, of course.