Naturally, magic items like a bag of holding can make even that a non-issue. Dungeon Masters (DMs) bestowing wealth in the form of gargantuan piles of copper pieces wasn’t unheard of. In short, 100 lbs of coins could be 50-50,000 gp of value.īack when D&D was a lot more loot-centric, the process of hauling back treasure was often a challenge. Now, 5000 coins sounds like a lot until you consider what kind of coins those are.
Electrum pieces 5e Pc#
How many coins can a PC carry, though? The answer depends on their strength and size (we have a whole article on carrying capacity and encumbrance), what else they are carrying and how the coins are stored.įor fun, let’s suppose you want to figure out how many coins would add up to 100lbs. 5e: Money & Money WeightĪccording to the Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG, pg 133), any 50 coins weigh roughly 1 pound-0.453 kg-which makes the weight of an individual coin about 9 grams. Your PCs might need to go fetch some to deal with a repeat of history with these aberrations. So the world’s electrum was almost entirely turned into weapons. The coins disappeared when a horde of aberrations from the far realm invaded the world, and electrum was the only metal alloy that could hurt them without the weapons being enchanted. Here’s an idea of my own: electrum is exceedingly rare, and at one point, electrum coins were equivalent to current day platinum ones.
They refer to them as ‘mage money’.” ( u/dmazmo) “In one of my campaigns, the Mage guild deals exclusively in Electrum, because it is used to craft wands and magical goods. While el ectrum is a real-world metal alloy, you can still make it awesome with some creativity. When they do pop up, it’s as a coin type that was used in the remote past and is now nothing more than a historical curiosity. That’s normal most settings and gaming groups don’t use them. Some of you might be seeing electrum coins for the first time.
A longneck contains about 350 ml of beer, making a gallon about 10.7 long necks. The average price of a longneck beer bottle in the US is $4.75 as of 2021. In D&D 5e’s table of expenses for food and lodging, a gallon of ale costs two silver pieces (sp), which means 0.2 gold pieces (gp).