Are there ANY high fantasy settings that use paper currency?

mid-level D&D
Scrolls allow you to pack more value per weight than coins would.

>>51745254
Discworld. There was a book about it. One of the best books.

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>>51745254
You know paper currency originated in china in the 12th century, right?

RIGHT?

>>51745298
The last one before senility started to show?

>>51745304
how is that relevant? we're talking about FANTASY

>>51745343
He's trying to be the Paper Money version of the potato autists. Just ignore him.

>>51745254
Exalted uses jade backed paper in the Realm

>>51745280
>coins counting towards weight

>>51745328
Yeah, though it has a few cracks.
I actually read it before Going Postal, and liked it better before then - they're very similar, even for books in a related sub-series.

The next one, Unseen Academicals is pretty divisive - I think it's got its charms, but the actual story there helps a lot. There's certainly a few flaws though.

Both Snuff and Raising Steam I don't think I'd read again - maybe once more, but they're both poor.

Shepard's Crown is pretty decent, but again that's very much content (and also the context), and the fact that his daughter wrote a fairly large bit helps

>>51747731
The original encumbrance system measured with "the weight of a coin" as the unit for weight, c also >>51743590

>>51747731
>metal disks of metal not counting towards weight

>>51745254
The Spawn of Fashan uses bank notes called, well, "bank notes".

>>51747731
>>51748127
>>51748089


The way I run my setting, you get bank notes for large denominations. Your "gold" is actually "converted gold value". You might have 35,000 goldsworth of rarer metals, gemstones, and banknotes, depending on your character's background and where they got the money.

This solves the gold-weight issue, and it also gets rid of that retarded imagery of carrying thousands of coins on your person.

>>51748232
>and it also gets rid of that retarded imagery of carrying thousands of coins on your person.

I'm sorry, what? You want to take all 50,000 gold pieces with you on your adventure? Do you have a cart for it? Why not leave some gold at home?

>>51748271
What if you're always on the run?

>>51748332
I see that as being counter to amassing a huge sum of wealth

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>>51748351
Is adventuring inherently anticapitalist?

>>51748397
I simply believe there are many methods in a fantasy world of hoarding/hauling your gold that it should have an actual impact on the way things go.

>>51747731
The RAW I remember from 3.5 was 50 coins to a pound, but I haven't checked since then for DnD or ever needed to for any other system I can think of

>>51748397
Quite the opposite, rootless murderhobos are the very foundation of the market economy. Go read Graeber's Debt.

>>51748397
Adventuring is very much anarcho-capitalist. You don't violate the NAP unless you can get away with it.

>>51748411
>>51748432
Would continuing to post rare zizeks be frowned upon, then?

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>>51748232
>This solves the gold-weight issue, and it also gets rid of that retarded imagery of carrying thousands of coins on your person.
Reminder that the ORIGINAL 'example of play' involved spending 40 minutes shoveling copper out of a chest.

>>51748934
At that point, why not just drag the chest around?

>>51748996
Also: Free chest

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>Sahud has a wide range of coins, with the most common being the silver yen ($10). Sahudese aristocrats occasionally use privately-printed paper money; the rest of the world finds this bewildering.

>>51750739
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