Mechanics (Gold and Phase System)

[Annadog40]

I read the thread and I think if there are only gold coins, 100 gold coins should equal $1. That will allow for more diversity in spending. Also for the weightlessness, have the money stored in an enchanted pouch.

The pouch would make the money weightless either due to weightless enchantments or the money is actually in your bank.

More expensive variants could allow for easy access to exactly how much money you need, so if you need 354 gold, you can pull out just the right amount. There could be some theft prevention measures like multiple pouches enchanted to be interconnected to one bank vault where the money actually sits.

Pouches would teleport the money to your pouch upon demand. In the case of theft for a multi system pouch or one attached to a bank, the victim could go to the bank and cancel the stolen pouch to prevent any more theft.

[Annadog40]

It could be a cultural thing. Maybe the newer Briaf uses denominations but the Passini do not. The newer system would be more common. Though in order for that to work, gold would have to be more common on Hais (the planet name) than on earth. It could work by swapping Gold and Copper and have silver be the top since it is far more useful than gold.

Though that might be a more deviation from the 'gold standard' or a 'flavor fail'. hmmmm

Maybe there was a crash in the gold market which was part of the reason the Passini collapsed and when the Briaf dominated, they came up with a new system of coinage.

Though how would the new coins equal into each other? The only example I remember from this thread was eight 'bits' of silver being one gold with gold being about one USD.

[Annadog40]

Thinking about this, maybe there could be a cool historical/magical event that got rid of like 90% of the planets gold or something which also ties in with the Passini's downfall. If we want to be typical, have silver be = 1 USD and gold be 100 USD then copper equals pennies.

I like the gun=sword and car=armor idea.