What would be a more interesting currency for a fantasy

Teeth

Scrotum

Foreskins

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>>383937129
nails

Computer scraps

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>>383937129
Shekels

Gronches

Souls

None, purely bartering without any currency, then you have to haggle for the best deal. IT would be an interesting change, and it would make the Barter skill more valuable

Girls

>>383937447
POXA GRONKA

>>383937129
Hearts

>>383937601
beating hearts.

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>>383937129
Scalps

>>383937129
Who gives a shit, it's currency. It can be literally anything and it effects literally nothing.

Puppies

>>383937708
Wow ur a real fucking downer, leave my thread cunt

Choco-dicks

>>383937521
Been done before. Certain items just become currency.

>>383937854
No

>>383937129
Jew Teeth, nigger fingers, kitten paws.

HP

>>383937129
Different gold/silver/bronze/copper coins that have to be exchanged when you go outside of their kingdom's realm of influence or whatever.

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hamburgers

cheeseburgers will be premium currency

>>383937884
but he's right, it's been tried before, and people just created their own "currency" using commonly available items.

>>383937129
Health potions

>>383937129
Coins made out of whatever metal happens to be the most rare in the setting

Coins of any other metal, especially not copper or silver

>>383938129
platinum was already done tho

Molested Children Tears.
>cryptocurrency

>>383937998
No

>>383937129
What was that comic where currency was not coins but chopped up orc dicks?

semen

Women.

>>383937996
Skate or Die 2 did that, you trade french fries and tacos for new tricks and skateboards.

>>383937996
>America in 2050: An Obesity Role-Playing Game

>>383938292
Mate, Path of Exile did it, and exactly what that anon said happened. I know it's a good idea and all, but just accept it doesn't really work

>>383938609
No

>>383937521
I would like this.
But more to the point that each seller has their own preferences for stuff so there doesn't end up being one resource that becomes the de-facto currency.

This always ends up being a failure in games that try this.
You get this really precious material that everyone loves equally for no other reason than "oh mayn dis shits guud"

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>>383937268
This

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>>383937996
I ate all my money

>>383938643
Yes

>>383937129
slaves

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>>383938828
Non

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>>383938781
>2017
>eating meat

>>383937129
Furry art

bitcoin / some sort of virtual credits

mush like 99% of the money in existence

You only find merchants mid level and buying things costs HP

>>383937521
Bartering was never a large system in all of human history, it was only ever present in small and very local communities.

Currency exists because it is an optimization of the problem of finding something valuable that two parties would almost always desire. If you are a tomato farmer and you want some beans but the bean farmer doesn't like tomatoes, you need to find someone who does want tomatoes and will provide a resource that the bean farmer will want and then trade him for the beans. That is a lot of work, and eventually you end up finding a resource that most people will accept universally because almost anyone can use it or they know people that do want it. You now have the basis for a currency. Grain and similar generic foods was often used as a de facto currency because of this reason.

>>383937129
the only way to make currency interesting is to tie it to some other mechanic.

>survival game in a cold wasteland where food, fuel, medicines are the main currencies, and you get items by trading them, while you need to keep some for self sustain.

>credibility, you can buy things on credit if you have enough credibility, but this lowers your credibility. you can get more by helping people/saving the village. You lose it if you move to a new place but you can still gain some based on your charisma, if you get certificates from people with high credibility, etc..

>>383937352
I heard sailors in the New World used to pay native prostitutes in nails because their society didn't know how to refine iron or didn't have any ore or something. It used to be the thing that one nail would get you one fuck. Of course the next time the sailors would bring sacks of nails and start ripping nails out of the ship and stuff so that one nail wouldn't get you anything any more you had to pay like 10.

>>383939413
>Bartering was never a large system in all of human history

holy shit imagine being this fucking stupid

>>383939341
This would be a very interesting mechanic with a regenerating health system. A blood sacrifice system. Do you increase your max health to be able to buy more at once? Do you increase your regen rate to buy more faster?

Clams.

>>383937996
>>383938609
>leveling up your character and party members requires ample amounts of foodstuffs
>at max level their thickness cannot be contained
It's time to make that fetish game

Fried potatoes. Hash Browns are the most basic currency, as they are easy to produce and made from left over potato bits, a small sack of hash browns can buy you a simple dinner. Fries are above hash browns, different kinds of fries being worth different things, and only available in some lands, skins and unskinned of course being worth different. Kettle cooked chips are above fries, as chips are difficult to mass produce and fragile, but kettle cooked chips are a bit more durable, and finally normal chips are the highest form, a stack of thin chips could easily buy you a whole house and some decent land.

Because they are perishable it will prevent inflation and over saturation of the economy, and ensure people can't horde or stock pile fried spuds and always spending.

>>383940126
You aren't funny.

>>383939732
not an argument, dumbass. all civilizations had some sort of currency.

>>383940126
Only if there's cute elf girls that try to steal and consume your potato based currency.

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>>383937189
GIT

>>383940170
I wasn't trying to be funny.

>>383939732
What do you mean? Show me an example where an economy was actually run on bartering, because it doesn't exist.

Bartering was used when interacting with either new cultures, since they obviously wouldn't have an agreed upon currency, or seperate cultures that don't value whatever currency you are using for whatever reason, maybe they hate gold, etc. And even in those cases, after the first few trades, people identified what that culture deems valuable and just automatically comes into the trade with those items at hand, effectively eliminating the need to barter. When trading with the indians, americans usually always had shells and beads in hand because they knew from other trades that they valued them heavily, making those shells and beads a de facto currency.

>>383939413
Bartering supplemented currency for most of human history, if it wasn't entirely bartering.

You'd just trade things that everyone needed or wanted, like salt or sugar. Roman soldiers were paid in salt sometimes.

>>383940338
Lolololl potatoes haaaaaaahaaaaa

>>383940345
>bartering was used until they didn't need to barter anymore

so bartering was the process used between the first interactions between different civilizations like the fucking silk road or when sand niggers traded with nords.

so pretty much throughout history

kys

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>>383937189
Let me get my purse

>>383940401
>An easy to produce resource: potatoes
>A valuable commodity: Frying oil
>A variety of denominations: Various frying types
Oh I'm sorry that I didn't make a post about a currency system revolving around gems or rocks or another kind of ore

>>383940385
Currency is a concept, not a physical thing. That salt was effectively a currency in that case (and it was in most of the world really, almost everyone accepted salt when trading because it was so rare everywhere).

>>383940401
Are you ok

>>383937129
"Buttcoins"
After you kill an enemy you loot the corpse of things that could be of use. Meat, bones, claws, testicles, etc. You then go to the shop and sell them for money. Realistically this is what you're doing when you loot gold; you're reaching your hand into the anus of a corpse to pull out body parts of value. They just abstract the process so instead of "loot horse cock, sell it for gold" it's just "loot gold".

>>383940724
Oh yeah, fair point

>>383940512
>bartering was never a large system
>large system

I actively recognized that bartering was used in small, localized use cases, but there never was an entire economy based around bartering. Can you read?

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>>383940747
No, I'm sorry

>>383940857
>silk road
>small

haha this thread is great

>>383940126
Assassin's Creed set in Ireland?

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>>383940554
...but why?

>>383941116
It's for dental students to practice on. Or for buying things obviously.

>>383941309
No

>>383937129
Unique rock/mineral measured by their weight (though it would be very impractical).

>>383941020
You do know that, in terms of GDP, the silk road was quite insignificant right?

And even still, people still had traded very certain items, aka currencies, and in fact, nowhere is this truer than the silk road because traders didn't want to have to carry back a bunch of worthless junk. If someone wanted silk or any other resource from China, they either had Cotton, Ivory, Wool, Silver, or Gold, effectively making those five a currency in those transactions. Everything else was too heavy to be worth taking back.

>>383942045
Ur wrong

>>383937521
>Purely bartering without any currency
Currency will eventually develop though, like in PoE and TF2.
If it's a game like Skyrim, then I'll just carry around a shit ton of gems so I can buy stuff I need. Or I can just smelt gold/silver ingots for the same purpose, essentially making my own currency, Bartering is stupid.

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>>383937129
Swords

also swords that have been bloodied in battle are worth more

>>383937129

dukats

>>383937352
Don't you dare calling the lord of the nails

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(You)s

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>>383942583
Here have 1 (you)

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>>383942379

>>383942773
Thank you. I don't have anything for trade except this (You) though.

>>383937129
Bitches.

>>383937129
some kind of precious metal pressed into small discs that make it easier to divide with markings to prevent forgeries that are made from cheap metal coated in the precious metal

>>383942208
This

>>383943002
Dumb

>>383942583
Offering five (You)s for one pornographic image with sauce, giving one free (You) to open negotiation

>>383943002
And a pattern around the edge to prevent the uh.. merchant class from clipping them.

>>383943214
Sorry, Anon. This isn't the marketplace for those types of transactions. If we get caught by the mods, we could face sentences of up to 7 days!

But meet me over at /h/ at sunset and I'll have all you need.

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>>383937129
Sperm

>>383944067
Didn't she pay those guys with money though? She was literally buying sperm.

>>383938440
>females characters must beg males for money
>they trade for the semen with sex
just like my cartunes

>>383943628
Giving another free (You) to continue negotiations

With all due respect, I can get what I need from there for myself. If you don't have anything I need, then we have no business to discuss. I'll take my (You)s and my leave. Good day.

>>383937884
TF2 has no set currency. The community fashioned one out of keys and earbuds.

>>383945161
No

>>383938905
That's the most retarded idea you could possibly come up with.
If your money is (presumably human) slaves, you need to spend money to keep your money alive, and it eventually gets too old to work. Plus it's impossible to divide a slave into multiple smaller slaves, so you still need some other form of currency for purchases below the value of one slave. Go fuck yourself you complete imbecile.

>>383945432
Don't reply to me.

>>383940857
I'm not the guy your you're arguing with but anon you are stubborn and retarded

>>383945471
Turn off your computer and think about what you did.

>>383945646
STOP

>>383942045
Bartering is what established those currencies and their values to begin with, fool.

>>383937129
to rip the souls of your enemies and then take them apart while placing special gems to those parts. certain gems would make it more valuable but it's just random because everyone likes that. then you'd have to go through mini game for the buyer to trust you. if you fail about zillion anacondas will crush you.

>>383937996
>inflation the game

>>383937129
grey items/vendor trash

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>>383937129
slaves, swords, souls, trophies from the fallen, blocks of salt or spices, silver coins, jugs of wine or other forms of alcohol, honey, livestock, golden feathers, idols, arrowheads, dreams/nightmares taken from the sleeping and imprisoned in magic gems, stories, tiny spirits imprisoned in tiny containers, dragon teeth, water

>>383945432
>being so stupid you don't realize slaves can pay debts with labor

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>>383943214
https://exhentai.org/g/973786/63e0ca2bc8/
Now give me 5 (You)s

>>383941740
I like the idea though.

>>383939732
Barter economies never existed. Before currency people used debt, which eventually was measured in ubiquitous low value materials, which eventually turned into currency.

>>383937129
That picture is terrible. It's just Canadian coin that has been photoshopped. If you have any doubt, look at the pennies. They're copper like American pennies, and they still look brown after the poor shop

>>383946631
Wrong

>>383937129
Loli catgirl slaves

petrified orc penis slices

zorkmids

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>>383937129
Counterfeit coins

>>383937129
sex.

>>383937129
>need currency
Most of the time, it's just an arbitrary limit on what your character has access to, and it just prevents you from buying that end-game gear early in the game; meanwhile inventory size, level requirement, merchants selling different things depending of the location and things like that serve the same purpose.
Currency is just a pain in the ass unless it's a historical setting, or some kind of ancap pandering bullshit.

>>383942336
Medieval blacksmith simulator? Would play.

>>383937129
Maybe solidified magic. Like magic was a rare commodity and you could only use magic if you had enough of magic in a solidified form. And when you use it you can cast spells or do work easier or even keep yourself alive longer - and after you use it, it dissipates only to reform somewhere else where magic is condensed enough to take physical form in certain ways. That way there would be incentive to get people to harvest it, people would know where to get it and it would have value.

bottled farts

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>>383950161
>the richest person in town is also the most capable of killing everyone
>keeping large amounts of money in one place is just asking for a lunatic to blow it up
>money gatherers can band together to crash the market any time by keeping part of their harvest hidden, then releasing their stores all at once
>class inequity between people who need the money to live and mages who want the money to learn/use magic, fuelled by the mage's ability to use magic effectively to take what they want by force

Magic never leads to anything good

>>383945857
HAMMER TIME

>>383951035
How's this? Then, frequently using it for to cast spells will eventually lead to the magic just condensing in the caster's own body, making the caster better with spells but physically making them weaker and giving others incentive to just murder them for the solidified magic currency.

>>383951035
So you mean that one alloy from the mistborn?

>>383947616

Right.

https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/special-exhibits/commerce-and-coins-ancient-near-east

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

>>383945936
you're proving his point though. Bartering has a large scale economic system always gives way to a currency. There never has been and never will be a long standing economy based on barter.

>>383937129
Rat Testicles

>>383941020
imagine being this fucking stupid that you think bartering was how business was done on the silk road

>>383937129
how about none at all?

just trade raw material for raw material.

>>383937708

Depressed cunts leave now

>>383953050
>raw material for raw material
How do you purchase goods or services?

>>383949683
Sex has no monetary value because the supply is infinite.

>>383953592
But access to that supply is limited

>implying you're going to get anywhere in an argument against the value of the Oldest Profession

let people create their own currency whether its actual stuff like items or fiat but you have to respect nothing is created nothing is loss rule because otherwise inflation is going to kill everything.

>>383953025
You're retarded tbqhwyf

>>383937129
Bottles of water in a desert/dry apocalypse setting
Colored magic paper
Edible meat (Chicken, beef, pork etc., maybe human on the black market)

>>383956236
*yawns*

>>383956236
>Bottles of water
I've always wanted to know what it would be like to have to choose between dehydration and destitution

>>383944571
I'm sorry we couldn't come to an agreement, anon. I hope you find what you're looking for.

>ctrl f: Bullets
>0 found

C'mon guys. Didn't you play metro 2033?

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>>383937129
Knuckle bones of dead saints and martyrs

>>383957192
>shoot bullets
>can't buy vodka
what sort of world would it be

>>383937447
Mah nigga

>>383937129
Severed monster cocks.

Honestly? Rupees.
or Salt
>Tries to shelter my rationed salt pouches from the rain.
>Salt merchants are pompous assholes like the spice guilders of Dune

>>383957192
OP said fantasy game.
Fantasy usually implies medieval technology.
Not tech from the last ~500 years.

>>383939672
Didn't the nes Mad Max game work like this?

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>>383937129

Gald

GILDED, FRIEND!

>>383959780
No, you buy everything with scrap

>>383937129
Bees

Fried chicken

>>383937129
Niggers

>>383960589
>Bees produce honey
>sell honey
>receive more bees

What have you DONE

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>when you're to late to say (You)s