(02-17-2022, 11:51 PM)Norgarth Wrote: I suspect it was mostly a D&D joke, they used to have Electrum as part of the coinage system (1 Electrum = 5 Silver, or 1/2 a gold) but most people just ignored it and simply used silver or gold coins)
Uh, in 5th Edition? It's back. We got something like 200 of the things.
Although I think part of why they wind up ignored in favor of silver or gold is just because it's an extra odd division. Like a $2 bill, it doesn't slim down the weight of that bag of wealth all that much. Although anything I've read in terms of lore implies that, in-world, Electrum comes and goes as a coin depending on trends.
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