What is the point of taking gold you find in the dungeons? It's more likely to be cursed than not. Silver treasures are where it's at. Plus you can use them to fight vampires. Silver>>>>>>>>>>Gold.
Wearing golden armor makes you look like a douche. Wearing silver armor makes you look like a hero and paragon of virtue.
Gold is better for laying curses on, to prevent people from stealing your wealth.
>>93240513>t. people who can't afford gold
>>93240490>What is the point of taking gold you find in the dungeons?The XP. The whores and wine don't pay for themselves either.
>>93240490just heat up the gold until it liquifies and boil the curse out of it
>pictured: a hero and a paragon of virtue
>>93240490>>93240666How is silver less likely to be cursed, Mr. Stan?
>>93240814Many fantasy settings have silver interfere with dark magic. If yours doesn't, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
>>93240814Silver is often considered pure or holy. Possibly related to silver's antibacterial properties. Even if in the past people didn't know about microbes, they could make note of silver treating infections. It's why vampires don't have a reflection, because many old mirrors used silver, meaning the holy material would not reflect their evil. Or why silver works on werewolves and vampires.
>>93240861>Many fantasy settings have silver interfere with dark magic.name a fewif you name some that have not featured in Tabletop Games outside your shitty homebrew, you lose
>>93240747That's steel grey. That's the equivalent of a homeless guy blowing his money on fake Jordans to look like he's wealthy.
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>>93240490>What is the point of taking gold you find in the dungeons?Gold = EXP.
>>93240929Is it Yakuza/Souls logic, where your currency is also used to level up?
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>>93240879D&D had silver bypassing the resistances of demons, IIRC.Pathfinder has silver being used against demons and shit, I'm 99% sure.World of Darkness had some stuff about Silver being harmful against creatures aligned with Darkness specifically, IIRC.Shadowrun: Hurts spirits and various other malign creature types.Call of Cthulhu: Interferes with specific dark magics and creatures. Not all, but many.
>>93240987>while you were partying I studied the tape
>>93241014>[loud asian noises]
>>93240879..? are you really challenging silver's role in mythology? it's so bog standard in real world mythology that it's been included in countless TTRPGs, video games, movies, books... it was what Artemis made her arrows and lances out of and gave them the power to kill whatever she shot. the association of silver to mystical significance goes back at least 2,500 years.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilverHasMysticPowers
>>93240955>gold as XP>references /v/Gold as XP has been around since the beginning of Dungeons and Dragons. Combat was far more lethal than current editions and it was better to steal as much treasure as possible while avoiding combat so you could claim a pile of xp while staying alive.
>>93241163Did you get XP for getting treasure or did you get treasure and then spend that treasure on yourself as if it was XP?
>>93241198It varied, generally you got xp for getting gold out of a dungeon, but there could be rules requiring you to spend it on ale and whores in town, or on training, or to visit a sort of wizard/sage and use that gold to imbue you with levels.
>>93241231Meanwhile, in Yakuza and Souls games you literally take your currency and buy levels. That's the joke with Mr. Shakedown, who roams the map, fights you, and steals your money. So he can "invest in himself" and become stronger.
>>93241134>it was what Artemis made her arrowsYet other sources her bow and arrows were gold, just as they say Apollo's bow and arrows were variously silver or gold. Homer and Apollonius say gold, Ovid says silver. As he might have been a fictitious character himself Homer probably knows more about made up stuff than Ovid could dream of, and well, unlike the other two Ovid was a Roman, one with clearly a vested interest in changing things. Roman adulteration of precious metal aroudn Ovid's time is also well attested.The weapons themselves were efficacious for having been of divine origin, crafted by Hephaestus, not because they were one metal or another.
>>93240875Lack of reflection is a modern development for vampires, not even early modern vampires, it was a Bram Stoker invention.Some creatures are scared of their own reflection or adversely affected by it and these are not from the silver mirror era. Jiangshi are terrified of their own reflection. Their origin is a time when mirrors were polished bronze or maybe speculum metal. Only famous or rich characters like the Japanese goddess Amaterasu had silver mirrors and even speculum was hard to deal with so reserved for the wealthy. Perseus' shield was bronze or bronze coated although Virgil describes Athena's aegis as polished gold though others describe the aegis as animal hide.When glass mirrors were developed they were tin or tin-amalgam not silver. When Stoker was writing Dracula silvered glass had been developed but as noted vampires having no reflection is very recent and silver as a mirror is an ancient rarity.
>>93240513Out of the way you pathetic fantasy pointed eared twats, A real Paragon of Virtue coming through!
>>93243006Lord Bling, dem Hoes be Trippin!
>>93241062I'm out of budget costumes but that one's dope.
>>93240513>posts picture of literal and figurative dickheads
>>93241134so no tabletop examples?
gold is worth something because we collectively agreed that it was worth somethingthis is widely considered to have been one of the worst mistakes we ever made
>>93244383yes but consider this: Gold shiny. OoOOooOoh.
>>93240490More value and who goes dungeoning without an anti-curse item?>>93240875Thats a good explaination.
>>93244367>so no tabletop examples?AD&D 2e rules usually say "silver or magical weapons" are needed to harm baatezu (lawful evil devils). Conversely, cold iron or magical weapons can harm tanar'ri (chaotic evil demons).
>>93244894Do you know what "interfere with magic" means?
>>93240490Shave and sweat the goldAre the shavings and dust still cursed?
>ctrl+f "platinum">0 results
>>93245083In my own setting, I use platinum coins as being exclusively used for extreme trading, like when selling properties, vehicles, and land, being worth a thousand gold a pop. So you don't really find them in dungeons, but they're more common in rich guy's vaults and such.
Silver is for trading with China, we can't afford to use it on anything else because they will not accept any other form of payment and we haven't got enough opium and steamships to steamroll them yet.
>>93244383It holds value due to not corroding over time & being the color of the sun, both of which gave it a metaphysical significance, as well as being easy to melt down & shape compared to other metals, & its conductivity which was known to advanced ancient civilizations.
>>93245083yeah, we have good taste.
>>93246354those things have value because we decide they do.
>>93246354there were no advanced ancient civilization.
>>93242702the subject is silver's association with mythology, magic, special powers, that so many different sources attribute it's use to weapons of various gods is enough to establish its connection in ancient history. that it was both a precious metal and made by a god does not dimish the connection between the metal and it's use by the gods. the additional dieties and authors you point put strengthen the overall connection.
>>93244367if you refuse to read the link or do any basic level of looking into it yourself, I will point out a few for you. - every single TTRPG published by white wolf uses silver as a special mystical material useful against were creatures, sometimes also useful against other supernatural creatures, represented by a flaw you can pick in character creation for more points you can take elsewhere.-every single edition of Dungeons and Dragons, so what six, or seven games? do we count ravenloft and planescape as different games? whatever, they all use silver to bypass the defenses of various evil creatures. devils, some undead, were creatures... between those two sources, that's upwards of 20 TTRPGs.warhammer fantasy role playing game, witch hunters use silvered weapons to hunt vampires.the Witcher TRPG uses silver to bypass the defenses of several monsters.in the Fighting Fantasy system, undead and spirits can only be harmed with silver weapons.GURPS fantasy has rules for silver weapons to use against supernatural enemies.it's also present in RIFTS for the same uses.so, depending on how pedantic you want to get, that's between 7 and 30ish TTRPGs that use silver as special vs. certain monsters, the trend being evil spirits, undead, and were creatures.
>>93247093cope cuck
>>93240490>Silver>>>>>>>>>>GoldJust say you're too broke to mint gold coins, Local Lord.
>>93240490>Plus you can use themThe idea you IRL NEET is for these characters to take the gold and relax.In like not need to work for 6 mounts or more. Stay in some hotel/in eat great food. Get hookers.
>>93244367WoD dumbfuck.
>>93240490>What is the point of taking gold you find in the dungeons?prostitutes and beer
>>93240879>>93244367what in tardation...Forgotten Realms, Witcher, Warhammer
>>93240490banker claws typed this post from atop a giant pile of gold
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>>93247355seethe :)
>>93247587lol nah
>>93247492cringe
>>93247216>the additional dieties and authors you point put strengthen the overall connectionNo they don't. Homer saying that Artemis's bow was gold does not strengthen silver's association with Artemis and I didn't mention what metal Hephaestus used. Thanks for the keks.
>>93240490Is it morally acceptrable to pocket silverware from your wealthy clients? They want that monster hunted and you're going to use it for just that purpose, so it should be okay.
>>93240879It is amazing to me how literally nobody in the chains replying to you remembered the>Interferes with dark magicor the>Why would silver coins be less likely to be cursed?Parts.I swear the IQ around here has gone from a former average of 95 to 85-75. Non-European and mid-west American IPs should just be banned.
>>93251471>nobody in the chains replying to you remember They didn't even bother to look in the first place. Its a generational social media phenomenon. Basically critical thinking has shifted from reading for content to reading for how it lines up with consensus with preferred personal truth and how to avoid ostracization from preferred social groups. The west is culturally doomed at this point. Its sort of like trolling but the intentional antagonism is more reactive >say something anything to outgroup than purposeful criticism like oldchan or previous trolling.
>>93244922>Do you know what "interfere with magic" means?Fiends in AD&D are magical outsiders, and silver interferes with the weapon resistance of said magical outsiders.
>>93248045>I am a NEET for over 10 years so I literally lost the ability to understand people who work for a livingWork for 1 year non stop and then you understand why everyone IRL would jump in joy if they got a chest full of gold coins.
>>93240513A knight in shining armor has never set foot in a melee.
>>93247291not a example of interfering with magic, curious
>>93241003Devils, demons are vulnerable to cold iron in D&D. Silver is what you use for werewolves and devils.
>>93241062This goes fucking hard, Jesus Christ this is Mad Max tier.
>>93252845actually, in many of those systems and more like C&C silver is an important ingredient to many defensive spells, like Magic Circle, that specifically block charm and control effects while resisting alignments such as Evil.It is just so baked into the system and in so many systems they didn't mention it
>>93252840>set footDo you mean stain your feet with peasant dirt?
>>93252845OP stated that silver was less likely to be cursed and more effective against vampires, thus far I've pointed out several thousand years of human mythology associating silver with gods, purity, special effectiveness against evil, and how those qualities have been reflected in table top games since the original DnD. if you are unable to understand the concept at this point, you might be too autistic to ever get it to click. I'm sorry for your disability.
>>93240490gold earns me xp, simple.
>>93241003Werewolves take aggravated damming from silver. Vampires can sometimes take aggravated damage from silver if you take the folkloric bane flaw.
>>93240490this is now my personality
Honestly I don't see any reason to take any treasure out of the dungeon at all. The treasure's in the dungeon. Once we've counted it all, we know exactly what's there. We could just leave it there and be like 'OK I'm going to give you 500 gold coins of what's in the dungeon' and write some kind of signed legal promise to transfer ownership of those coins without ever actually taking them out of the dungeon.It would save so much time and labour, and dungeons are very secure anyway. Taking them away from the dungeon probably just renders them easier to steal.
>>93254826>bank administration: the gamei guess if you're a certain type of autist this could be fun
>>93254831Well, the hard part would be convincing the king to let us start taking money INTO the dungeon.
