Campaign coins-
Yes?
No?
Maybe?
Literally, wat?
>>43928799
What are these meant to be?
>>43928799
Yes, if I was rich enough to afford enough to actually use
>>43928799
No. Just use debased east european or middle eastern currency, it'll be far cheaper with the benefit of stupid moon runes
>>43928829
>>43928815
Metal coins in various denominations and colors to use as copper, silver, gold coins in game currency
>lrn2google
>>43928799
I find them to be me tacky and expensive to a degree that out weighs the tactile benefits they would bring.
I have considered using poker chips to keep track of currency before.
>>43928799
Holy cow just use regular coins. Pennies, nickles, and quarters.
>>43928966
then the players will just steal them and that guy will just bring all his parents money and buy the whole kingdom
>>43928799
Yes. I only use them in low-currency settings. I just use recycled aluminium and cast them.
>>43928859
Where do you get the coins?
What if we used chocolate coins? Money spent on ale and wenches and assorted debauchery can be eaten.
>>43929173
Who are you playing with that does this?
You can also just right down how much money they have.
>>43928799
This shit gets REALLY impractical after a certain point.
>>43929699
I DO like mechanics that encourage in character behaviour against the player's best interest.
>>43929650
>low-currency settings
>forges own props
Sir, I approve your style of gaming.
>>43928799
I kickstarted a game that uses coin throws instead of dice rolls for task resolution, and that features magical currency as a big part of the setting, so the campaign coins for that are going to be pretty integral. One of the high-level backer rewards was having your face appear as the royal profile on a high-denomination coin, which seems like it would be neat.
>>43929710
>This shit gets REALLY impractical after a certain point.
Wouldn't you, just like real life, start using higher denominations at that point? Make some monopoly money and use paper after a while if money spirals out of control.
Makes things a little more interesting where coins denote how much money a PC has on hand in actual coinage and sellable treasure, and notes are how much is in their account at the Bank of Draco.
Maybe the PCs documents are stolen and they have to do a bureaucratic sidequest to access their fortune while using only their on-hand cash in the mean-time. Pickpockets are a danger to those with pockets of jewels, but not to those with an identity charm hanging around their neck.
>>43928799
These look way shittier than the ones I've seen on kickstarter
>>43929792
They ARE the ones from KS dumbass.
There's only like three fantasy coin companies and Campaign Coins (tm) use kickstarter
>>43928799
Well, I probably would use them (if I actually ran games).
But they would have to be (or seem) metal and look convincing to me. The problem with most of these pictured, for me, is the big cartoonishly-drawn value numbers. They're much smaller on RL currency, at least in English currency.
My favourite from the OP pic are circles-and-gears one and the interweaving-circles one.
In what circumstances would I need a handful of metal coins in a game?
>>43928799
How much do fantasy coins usually cost?
How large are they?
Can I choose which ones I want to order?
Do any of the coin-producing companies ship to the UK?
Are they often available on Ebay and similar sites?
>>43930105
To track the number of coins your character has, in games where you deal in small quantities of currency but expect to spend or gain it fairly frequently during the session.
It's an edge case, I'll grant you. I prefer to keep the physical tokens for tracking things like Fate points that get passed back and forth a lot.
>>43930116
>I don't understand how to use Google
You can usually get packs of 10 of a single type/ denomination for $8-9. Copper, silver, gold, platinum, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000 are your common options. Some stores or companies have sets of 30 or so, 3 different types, 10 each
>>43928799
Maybe for a board game. I can't imagine using physical coins in an rpg.
I'm gonna steal all the fucking coins
>>43930157
Any specific game in mind where you would use such small quantities of fantasy coins though?
Most of the games I am familiar with use an abstract resource system or deal in hundreds and thousands of coins.
The coins themselves look awesome, but I can't see them being very practical.
Maybe as Bennies or FATE tokens or something like that though...
Some Euro LARPS are quite serious about their coinage. Some friends of mine played one where there were like a dozen different currencies, which fluctuated in value according to player actions.
>>43930167
What about as part of a donation bowl prop for playing a monk or beggar?
>>43930219
Navy / army game. Make them take the King's shillng.
>>43930219
They also make specific fate tokens
>>43930219
Legend of the Five Rings doesn't deal much with currency. A member of the ruling Samurai class can expect to handle less than a dozen coins per year. Less if they're upper-class and have servants to handle it for them. Even the grubby poorfag ronin who actually have to worry about food and shelter and the merchant patrons who actively participate in the economy only work with a handful at a time.
>>43930287
One koku is worth a lot, and you might only carry a handful of koku, but a lot of the stuff you're buying costs a fraction of a koku, and if your making exchanges you can end up with a lot of much lesser coins.
Not that anyone but a Yasuki or a Mantis would actually be making those exchanges, but still.
>>43929945
>the ones IVE SEEN
They may be from kickstarter, but I did by see them on kickstarter
I saw some decent ones on KS though
Dumbass
>>43928903
What the fuck for?
>>43929667
At a currency exchange.
>>43930406
Did *not* see them on kickstarter
Shitty autocorrect
>>43930343
The perception that a true samurai doesn't concern themselves with commerce means that they often don't bother getting their change when making small purchases. And there's a pretty significant barter aspect to the whole thing (Sometimes hidden behind "gifts"). Even high level trade agreements are usually trading resources directly, rather than resources for Koku.
>>43930407
LARP mostly.
>>43928799
Why do I want these so much?The system wants us sick and unsatisfied so we will mindlessly consume their products and call that living.
>>43930472
The perception that a true samurai doesn't concern themselves with commerce means that they often don't bother getting their change when making small purchases.
What's the source on that? Not that I disbelieve you, I'm just curious. It would make sense as a facet of Compassion, too, for Samurai concerned with that, since you're giving your lessers way more money than their goods would command.
>>43930504
Look closer at them, they look like ass. Bad ass, like when you walk in on your friend's grandmother.
>>43930532
They look better than real currency in Asia.
>>43928799
why pay someone for fake currency?
I just use these worthless rubles. Outfitted my Monopoly set with them too. Russian Billionaire Edition!
>>43930563
Asia is a big place.
>>43930504
I think you're in the wrong hobby with that mentality
>>43930632
Not him, but how so? Not everyone's a bitch for GW, you know?
>>43930528
It's heavily implied in a lot of the newer stuff and was explicit back in one of the 2nd edition sourcebooks. The upper-middle class of samurai are the most likely to do that. Low-end samurai can't afford to be that frivolous and really high-end samurai have low-end samurai to handle it for them.
It also cuts both ways, where an upper-class samurai will disinterestedly underpay and the merchant can't really do much about it himself. Of course, a samurai who does that too often will end up with local law enforcement politely informing them that they were mistaken and need to pay up (or at the very least pay up properly next time).
>>43928799
https://www.greatamericancoincompany.com/other/pirate-coins.html
66 bucks gets you about 200 coins. They look alright too, vague enough to use in just about any game.
>>43930732
I wasn't aware that pirates had their own currency.
>>43930780
That's 200P
>>43930572
For you
>>43930780
It's fairly unsophisticated.
8 Yarrs to a Ho, two Hos to a Yo.
>>43930972
Man, hoes came cheap in those days.
>>43930972
How much is an "Aye" worth?
>>43931144
An Aye for an eye
>>43931173
Is that why pirates wear patches so often? They've traded an eye for currency?
>>43931173
So about $23000.
>>43931341
>>43931289
I did the math. Occurring to dnd rules, $23000, or one eye/ Aye, is only worth 160 gold coins at current gold prices
>>43929650
You. You're cool.
Pics of your coins, please?
>>43928799
>Yes?
>No?
>Maybe?
I don't know. Could you repeat the question?
Coinage? Metal? are we common laborers, artisans, milk maids!?
Joking aside, for my D&D games I have major trade groups use residuum (or the like) pressed into ceramic slips. For simplicity i just mark it all in gold piece value and if the PC need to craft items just have them turn in slips to make up the cost. No need to futz about with exotic ingredients unless I specifically want the party to quest for them.
>>43933702
>back
I have a 400 gp denomination as well
>>43929710
>>43929785
Also, Campaign Coins now (or at least after the KS Ships) has denominations up to like 10 million GP. I'm not sure why you'd need anything larger than that.
>>43930219
They have large denominations. It'd be fairly easy to get a handful of the smaller coins for lower levels and then a bunch of the 1,000 to 10,000 coins in Gold and Platinum.
>>43933889
>>43933889
10 mil? dude we got like 30,000 nutronium golems to kill my +107 sword of bullshit aint gonna buy with that kind of cash monies.
>>43934004
At that point you might as well just put "Yes" under money.
>>43930161
Fantasy money that's almost as expensive as real money?
Pass.
I just usually go to a discount store and go to the kids section and raid their play money set. Usually comes in various plastic fake currencies.
Better yet, if your parents have a gambling addiction, just use their poker chips.
>>43934150
Also, one of my mates works in a factory that punches out brass plates that go in light switches, so he ends up with thousands of these small brass square pieces. Well, not these. But what'd be inside these.
They're bretty gud.
>Cardboard
Go downstairs, pull up a box, and cut a grid of different sized and shaped pieces.
Feeling fancy? Pull out a sharpie and draw a value on the face.
Collect coins at end of day.
Coins.
>>43934150
>not having your own poker chips
Uh
>>43934187
Now you just have to get some gear to hammer coins.
>>43930887
Nah, it's literally the biggest place in the world.your baneposting is bad and you should feel bad
>>43928799
Absolutely if they ever fucking stayed on Amazon
Same for Fief and Realm coins.
>>43934415
I don't play poker, but my parents do.
Is that really so unusual?
>>43928799
If I had the money? Yes, absolutely.
JUST ORDERED $120 WORTH BITCHES
>>43938151
You can join me in waiting then. I've been awaiting my KS pledge for several months now. Not sure if it affects their regualr orders, but they've had some problems with shading on the coins for the KS batch, so it's been delayed.
>>43938235
I ordered through the paizo website because their site was out of stock across the board
>>43928799
No.
They're just a stupid novelty that wears thin after a session or two. Go ahead and waste your time and money with them, but don't be surprised at all when your players just stop giving a shit and go back to tracking money on paper.
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