val Holryn wrote:
I have not looked in depth at the 5e mods (already making my response suspect) but D&D's economy is hard baked into the rule set. And it's baked in at a different setting than A:RPG. So I don't think you are going to find it easy to translate the two directly.
But I do have a suggestion if you want to make a superficial change that mirrors Arcanis' "Silver Standard." Use two different sized silver coins to reflect D&Ds silver piece and gold piece. Historically different sized (silver) coins often happens.
Thus you would have a small "dime" sized silver coin to represent the silver piece, and a "silver dollar" (aka the Baht, Imperial, Crown, Owl, Sail etc) sized coin for the gold piece. (You could then use gold pieces instead of platinum pieces to continue on)
It might be worthwhile. But it might also cause headaches translating everything.
Just a thought.
Southernskies wrote:
Since D&D is 'decimal' and A:RPG is 'centimal' the scaling just isn't there for an easy conversion.
D&D: 1gp = 10sp = 100cp
A:RPG: 1gc = 100 sc = 10000cc
The 'easiest' way is to price everything in 5e to the silver standard and only use the word 'gold' in relationship to the setting.
viewtopic.php?p=11717#p11717eg: instead of saying "the merchant will sell that to you for 30gp", you say "the merchant will sell that to you for 300 decus (sp). He will accept 3 Milandisian Crowns or Altherian Owls (3gc) but not Bahts or Imperials."
These are both good ideas and essentially would allow me to do this without the headache of actually doing it. While I can easily work up some currency to replace the standards and their names. How do you rationalize a merchant refusing coin though? I mean if i go to my local drive thru, they have signs for certain denominations of bills not excepted at certain times of day...
Merchants in a mostly medieval setting though.. I mean i guess I could say they don't want to go to the money changer an extra time this week than their normal amount. Or I could say they have no interest in lugging around all that silver and copper coinage.