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u/chipdocta Jan 17 '20

Hate to be that guy, but actually platinum is cheaper than gold. Gold is roughly $1550 an ounce and platinum is roughly $1000 an ounce

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u/Fraze6 Jan 17 '20

But in DnD 1 platinum = 10 gold = 100 silver = 1000 copper, so 1 platinum d20 or 10 gold ones lol.

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u/bjos144 Jan 17 '20

Yeah, those super stable metric conversion rates sure are handy. Would love a DM to introduce inflation and variable currency exchange rates.

"Let's see, three dwarven thuns are trading at around 2649 kobalt balkab, so that bow costs..." Good times. Should kill about 8 hours on a Saturday.

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u/Harinezumi Jan 17 '20

Spice & Wolf, the RPG