Gold-Silver-Copper Standard: Difference between revisions

 

 

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]] in modern media; coins from most valuable to least are platinum, gold, silver, and copper at a ratio of 10:1. Previous editions had outliers (electrum, a gold/silver alloy, at half a gold each) and at least one non-decimal exchange rate (5 gold to 1 platinum, 20 silver to 1 gold in 1st Edition, 5 copper to 1 silver in pre-1st-Edition Basic D&D), but these have been done away with over the years.

** In 1st Edition AD&D, the gold piece was more than the basic unit of currency. It was also the basic unit of ''weight''. All coins, including gold pieces, weighed 1/10 of a pound each, and all weights -- the weight of a suit of armor, the carrying capacity of a character with 17 Strength, the strength of a ''telekinesis'' spell, etc. -- were given in units of gold pieces. (2nd Edition reduced the weight of coins to 1/50 of a pound each, and listed weights and weight-limits in plain old pounds.)

* In ''[[Spellforce]]'', the 100:1 ratio applies, but the game doesn't automatically exchange lower denominations for higher when appropriate. This can lead to the player ostensibly carrying around tens of thousands of copper pieces.

* Many [[MU Ds]] would have this as a default setting. The ratios would be juggled slightly: say, 20 silver to 1 gold, 5 gold to 1 platinum.

* [[Terraria]] uses copper, silver, gold, and platinum coins. 100 coins of a lower denomination are equal to one higher-denomination coin. In fact, for ease of storage, 100 coins of a lower denomination can be ''crafted into'' a higher-denomination coin. How you craft a lot of copper into a little silver (or silver into gold, etc) is [[MST3K Mantra|best not thought about too much]].

* Each town in ''[[The Game of the Ages]]'' has just one coinage, but the first has copper, the second silver and the third gold.