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That first panel reminds me of my cat when she gets in a playful mood. Adorable.
Tiffany may well be part-dragon. 🙂
At least she’s not swimming in it like Scrooge McDuck.
So… the gold is hers… eventually… but not now?
Will she get a weekly advance or a salary until her term is up?
A handfull of coins isn’t even 1% of that heap
but she wouldn’t be allowed to do that EVERY DAY.
One or two gold coins is probably a months salary there.
So that’s why she gets along so well with Thadwick; they both appreciate a fine hoard of gold. 😉
Also, hooray for the return of the magic book of insults!
Denver and Tiffany sitting on a pile of gold…
Jayessell,
Throughout history, a gold coin was usually more like 10 years salary for a real commoner.
Well, that’s *real* world for you. In fantasy worlds however, gold coins usually buy you a room for night in a lousy tavern.
no, in a fantasy world tavern rooms tend to be worth two or three silvers on average, I think. Sure, in some stories they’re worth gold, but there’s also stories that get the pricing right, thus it averages out.
These gold coins, however, appear to be mighty large. I wouldn’t want to have to carry a large purse of those.
2 gold coins a month might be the salary of a senior knight
on the king’s personal security detail.
It would be funny to see her reaction if she
were being paid from her own horde.
Would she be self-employed then?
(Eh… she’s a contractor.
All the cons and none of the pros of being an official knight.)
From what I understood when the treasure pile was first shown it was the reward for rescuing the princess(along with her hand in marriage).
Pile is to big to carry around with her so she will probably have the castle hold onto the bulk of it for security stopping by to pick up spending money(or roll in it) as needed.
I did that to a group I DM’d for once. They spent weeks (real time) preparing their characters, getting information and magic items, all to take on the local dragon. They put together a really good plan, hiked out to the desolate mountain home in the trackless wilderness, and managed to honestly slay the beast….and claim its hoard!
Then I made them actually carry it back, using the 2nd Edition AD&D rule that 10 gp = 1 pound. They could carry less than a fifth of the horde. By the time they got back from carrying that back to their town, a lich had moved into the old dragon caves.
After deciding (wisely) to leave the lich alone, they turned around and went back to town. Only to find their ‘friend’ they had set to guard their fifth had taken it and run off.
@Dean
That was my first thought as well. 😀
@SluggyBiscuit – You’re an awesome DM! They’ll never forget that as long as they live.
I looked up the size of historical gold coins once, they weren’t very big. Roman gold coins were only about the size of a modern dime.
The entire notion back then was that the coin had inherent value. The coins were to be a consistent size so you didn’t have to weigh all the gold and silver to make a transaction. But a large coin would still be a lot of gold, which would make it more than a normal person would need in many cases, so the gold coin was small – but still pretty valuable (the equivalent of a larger denomination bill in modern terms).
Then people started shaving tiny pieces off the side to cheat on the consistent size and weight thing (gold is soft after all). So the mints started to make the coins with regular marks along the side so that a merchant could tell by sight and feel if the coin had been shaved (you can still see those marks on some modern coins, even though its no longer meaningful).
Just did a little checking.
As best I can tell, a Roman Aureus (gold coin) was worth about $2,000 modern dollars. I’m basing this on the Roman legionairre’s pay of 1,000 sesterces a year, 4 sesterces to the denarius, 25 denarius to the aureus.
I would do that… If I could.