Timeline for How can I keep my gold safe from other PCs?
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| Feb 26, 2019 at 8:30 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | @lightcat - In real life, it was primarily done with silver ("hack silver", as documented in the wikipedia article I linked earlier) because silver was the primary medium of exchange. In a D&D world where gold and platinum predominate, there's no clear reason why it wouldn't be done with those metals. Pure platinum is nearly as soft as pure gold, so clipping/shaving it should be possible. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 15:54 | comment | added | lightcat | @davesherohman That's brilliant. Probably easier with gold than with platinum. Not sure if platinum can be shaved. Is there any precedence for that in real life or D&D? | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 12:54 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | @MatthieuM.- Cut or shave off pieces of the appropriate weight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksilver | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 5:27 | comment | added | lightcat | @ MatthieuM. You keep what you think you'll need as coins. Everything else you convert. In the specific situation of this OP, if you then find yourself without enough coin, well that's easy... Steal what you need from your best friend. | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | How do you pay for something once you have a single big chunk of gold/platinum? | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | lightcat | @markwells True, though the OP currently only has 1008 gp which is only about 100 pp and that could esily be melted down to a solid thigh/arm garter or two depending on what the GM allows. Four garters are easy to manage and even 8 or more are doable. Beyond that investments in land etc. become more viable. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 19:10 | comment | added | Mark Wells | This is historically an important function of precious-metal jewelry, though it's less viable in the typical D&D world where you need pounds and pounds of gold to buy anything. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 15:42 | history | edited | lightcat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2019 at 7:41 | history | edited | lightcat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2019 at 7:12 | history | answered | lightcat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |