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[Arx]

Speaking of Magic and gold, one of my friends recently calculated on a whim that Black Lotus cards are worth twice their weight in plutonium.

Of course, that's about 4 grams of plutonium, but still.

[Dutchling]

Speaking of Magic and gold, one of my friends recently calculated on a whim that Black Lotus cards are worth twice their weight in plutonium.

Yeah I saw that on the frontpage of /r/MagicTCG too

[Tack]

Zing.
I heard about the one guy who lost his Black Lotus card in a fire and then tried to convince the insurance company that it was a $50k reimbursable loss.
No idea what happened after that.


In any case, our GM is very big on 'Spirit of the rules, not Letter of the rules'. For instance, my harpoon in the Rolladex says that it only grapples on a crit. I say 'Fuck that noise', GM goes 'Yeah that's pretty dull. Make it if you do more than X damage to them'.
However, if we try to exploit loopholes to make ourselves (more) overpowered, he'll shut it dow
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Creating mithril chain out of nothing is the exact same thing - especially as he's now put mithril in as a currency between gold and platinum.

Spoiler: The funny thing about that, for those who are interested (click to show/hide)

Basically 1 Mith piece is equal to 10 Gold pieces, with Platinum having a 1/10 above that.
A 10ft length of Mithril chain would cost 500 gold- or 50 mithril pieces.
The standard coin is 50 to the pound, except for Mithril which is 1/2 the weight of other metals.

Meaning 100 Mithril pieces = 1lb of Mithril
Whilst 10ft of Mithril Chain = 1lb of Mithril

Pay 500g> Make 10ft of Mithril Chain> Transmute chain back into 1000g.
Hilarious. GM shut it down though.

Why Magic Items cost gold.

Blown. Mind. Mine. Is.

[Leafsnail]

Zing.
I heard about the one guy who lost his Black Lotus card in a fire and then tried to convince the insurance company that it was a $50k reimbursable loss.
No idea what happened after that.

Pretty sure you'd have to take out a special insurance policy on something like that.

[My Name is Immaterial]

D&D 5e survey results.
Highlights:
Another sorcerer option is coming, as are more options for the Four Elemental Monk.
As for Eberron, Artificer and Warforged are going to be altered majorly.

[Jimmy]

The joys of playing with my previous 3.5e group was that our DM was a literal RAW lawyer. As in, real lawyer. He was a professor at our local University and taught constitutional law. Argue that the rules say it's possible, and if you have enough evidence, you could do it, no matter how illogical it seemed.

Of course this also meant most players had a gentleman's agreement not to break the game, but enjoyed getting up to shenanigans occasionally.

Meanwhile, this week my Pathfinder wizard hit level 5 and just got Fireball and Haste, and we're about to explore the 3rd floor of an ancient dwarven ruin. Can't wait to fry some monsters!

[Mephisto]

The Feng Shui 2 pdf got sent out to backers yesterday and it looks like an interesting read. Can't wait for my dead tree edition to arrive in a few months. Finding my name in the back covers was an interesting experience.

[Sergius]

Maybe whoever designed the spells deliberately pegged them to the currency; what the spell actually needs is a threshold of value based on common acceptance of the GP as legal tender as represented by commodities with ties to the effects of the spells. The magic can't run on the gold standard, or the descriptions wouldn't specify coinage. That said, it also specifies gold pieces, excluding silver, copper, and platinum.

Therefore, we can conclude that a conspiracy exists between all casters who use material components across all known planes to intrinsically tie magic to the continued use of gold coins as the currency. They're trying to leverage the importance of their magic to prevent economic development towards the use of fiat money.

Maybe magic just relies on the reflected sound of underground spirits?

[Tack]

I think it's to stop people being like 'Wow! I'm in the plane of earth!, Welp, better gather up double-handfuls of diamonds for those Wishes!'

[Bohandas]

Maybe whoever designed the spells deliberately pegged them to the currency; what the spell actually needs is a threshold of value based on common acceptance of the GP as legal tender as represented by commodities with ties to the effects of the spells. The magic can't run on the gold standard, or the descriptions wouldn't specify coinage. That said, it also specifies gold pieces, excluding silver, copper, and platinum.

Therefore, we can conclude that a conspiracy exists between all casters who use material components across all known planes to intrinsically tie magic to the continued use of gold coins as the currency. They're trying to leverage the importance of their magic to prevent economic development towards the use of fiat money.

Or to prevent the develop,ent of high technology, as gold, copper, silver, and platinum are all very good electrical conductors

[My Name is Immaterial]

WOTC released another 100 trinkets for their latest supplement.

[GiglameshDespair]

WOTC released another 100 trinkets for their latest supplement.

Heh, that's cool.

[Gentlefish]

95             A romance chapbook written in undercommon titled "Just one Layer of Grey".

I'm slain

[Flying Dice]

Oh boy, that first trinket table was good, but this one's gold. In coin form, of course.

That self-heating teakettle sounds lovely.

[Aseaheru]

Im just gonna throw a post in here... That link to why they use the value of gold was awesome.