Do you think in Gold or Plat?

[trptim]

I tend to think in gold
When I look at my inventory and see numbers > 100,000 in plat, I am happy, cause I have over a million gold

However, I don't call them Gold Farmers

[Rav'n]

I do the same... 'think' in plat... but never say plat....which confuses the heck out of some of my guildies.

Easiest way to fix this. All of you 'gold' thinkers.... send me your Plat. (Care of Ravn on Argo...) then continue counting your gold.

REally... I'm just trying to help you here.

[rest]

I think in Silver because I'm lame

[DoctorWhofan]

9 clerics = gold standard. Plat farmers are Plat cuz they are richer than me.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

personally I prefer electrum

[ShaeNightbird]

Copper. I'm a Cleric. Can you spare a few, kind sir?

[GlassCannon]

Plat. I never have more than 10k left after logging a character out. Ever.


I think in the largest increment because the rest is decimals.

[Grimdiegn]

Plat. The only place I make myself think gold in on the AH.

[geoffhanna]

There's gold in this game?

[branmakmuffin]

There's gold in this game?

Yeah, it falls out of crates and barrels in WW, but for some stupid reason, the game labels it "copper" and assigns it 1/100th its actual value.

[Scholar]

I have thought in terms of platinum for quite some time. When I hear someone talk in terms of gold, I always wonder if they are new. Heck, I have 3 clerics and would hate to think of my costs in terms that add another digit...

[sirgog]

I think in terms of kPP, so an item on the AH that is listed at 1 million gold I think of as 100 kPP.


Prices and player wealth are so inflated in this game that kPP is the only sensible denomination for moderate sized trades. (Extremely good items instead have values in MPP).

[shane1122]

When I hear someone talk in terms of gold, I always wonder if they are new.

Actually it is the opposite. I think in gold because I am old. Same reason that in my mind Casters are Magic Users, Rogues are Thieves, "Toons" are characters, and the proper order is Str, Int, Wis, Dex, Con, Cha.

Based on the lingo they use, it is easy to tell the "D and D players" from the "Video Gamers."

Video Gamers talk about Plat, DPS, gimped builds, rerolls, respecs, etc

D and D players wonder where the Illusionist and Bards are and when robots becoame a D and D playable race.

-Shane

[Deaths_ward]

Actually it is the opposite. I think in gold because I am old. Same reason that in my mind Casters are Magic Users, Rogues are Thieves, "Toons" are characters, and the proper order is Str, Int, Wis, Dex, Con, Cha.

Based on the lingo they use, it is easy to tell the "D and D players" from the "Video Gamers."

Video Gamers talk about Plat, DPS, gimped builds, rerolls, respecs, etc

D and D players wonder where the Illusionist and Bards are and when robots becoame a D and D playable race.

-Shane

I play pen and paper D&D, but I've made the distinct choice in my mind that this isn't really D&D it's the red headed step child of D&D and the strange abhored monster called 'Creative Licensing', as well as the internet. So while it may function under some of the Dungeons and Dragons rule pretexts it is by far and large not D&D. So I feel perfectly comfortable speaking of DPS, Gimp Builds, Rerolls, and 'uberness' because well it's just easier to integrate.

[WorldTraveler]

I price things in gold, the actual unit of currency like the dollar, not the ten dollar bill is our unit of currency. I actually thought
that one platinum was five gold when I was new cause of the old conversion system until I did a few sales and realized the
difference in the game.

[Kromize]

I usually think in gold, and have to make the translation in plat.

Same here... :/

[Lorien_the_First_One]

D and D players wonder where the Illusionist and Bards are and when robots becoame a D and D playable race.

-Shane

Video game players call them robots....D&D players call them Constructs. And Constructs have been in D&D for quite a long time, about 8ish years as a playable race.

[Dawnblade]

Video game players call them robots....D&D players call them Constructs. And Constructs have been in D&D for quite a long time, about 8ish years as a playable race.

That's about when the evil WOTC took over then. I haven't played since. I think he was refering to the real old days when TSR was still around. The Golden Age

[winsom]

I think in gold pieces too because that is the denomination that the auction house, brokers and merchants use.

[Kalanth]

That's about when the evil WOTC took over then. I haven't played since. I think he was refering to the real old days when TSR was still around. The Golden Age

But constructs were around then as well, just not sentient constructs. On top of that, if we were really looking to pass blame (while for me its praise) for the idea of the Warforged we should blame contest winner Keith Baker for ever submitting the idea. Thanks to his pitch for Eberron the idea of the Warforged was born. Besides, playin as a sentinet construct is by far the least outlandish thing that WoTC or TSR have ever done. Things like Spelljammer and Thri-Kreen out weigh that pretty heavily, but no one ever talks about D&D In Space or the fact that you could reinact Star Ship Troopers minus the guns (or with the guns if you had the right TSR books).

I have always thought in plat, even back in old TSR editions. It was just easier to do it that way so that my characters were not carrying so much weight on them.