Suggestion Discussion - Craftable Coinage

[Tyrantos]

Lead into gold at a very high alchemy DC would be pretty neat.

Make it require various vials of magic/dragon blood too.

Actually, yes. Tie it to Alchemy if anything. Put a pretty high DC on it and crafting points, but make it possible.

[BegoneThoth]

You could require people to make a philosophers stone, which is tedious to make, and that lets you turn iron into silver and lead into gold by using the stone on the ingots. It would have charges and ideally require something like mojo other trades have to make.

Art crafting could then turn copper/silver/gold into gold pieces.

[yellowcateyes]

Only if the philosopher's stone was charged through the sacrifice of people.

[SwampFoot]

I could actually see something like this raising other costs for crafted items, placing them out of reach for PCs that don't have the required skill to make coins. I like the scrapper idea posted earlier. It gives those without coin-making skills a way to keep up with those with the skill. It would also force a hard value on ore. Keep the scrap value lower than what the coin output could be so coin makers can buy them and still profit without having to murder others for the ore.

[The GrumpyCat]

You could require people to make a philosophers stone, which is tedious to make, and that lets you turn iron into silver and lead into gold by using the stone on the ingots. It would have charges and ideally require something like mojo other trades have to make

Ideally I'd would have a one off ressurection ability too - eternal life and all that.

[Mr_Rieper]

I like it. It provides a clever way to combat the inflation of gold without too much direct interference. Like a "gold sink" that is very realistic and natural. It might be a good idea to replace the gold that is dropped by monsters with something else of equal value, though.

This is one of the things I wanted to see on the server, actually. Reminds me of the Forgotten Realms: Cormyr server. The other being perishable and non-perishable types of food, and NPC food vendors being linked to settlement stockpiles.

100% two thumbs up from me for this idea though. I'm glad that the admins and devs have the time to devote to deepening our experiences on the server.

[BegoneThoth]

You could require people to make a philosophers stone, which is tedious to make, and that lets you turn iron into silver and lead into gold by using the stone on the ingots. It would have charges and ideally require something like mojo other trades have to make

Ideally I'd would have a one off ressurection ability too - eternal life and all that.

That's a good idea, but a little 'cheap' for such an item? A better idea might be to add a 'unique power' that knocks the user down a level, emulating another arelith server fixture, and call that eternal life.

[TimeAdept]

Philo stones, coins, and ingor crafting sound like fun ways to boost alchemy.

As for making coinage itself, though, I don't know if it really serves a use like gemstacks do, unless the resulting coins also weight 0.0 pounds. Otherwise I'll just keep using gems and mechanical weightless GP.

[BegoneThoth]

I assume you just make a 'gold piece' that goes into your gold.

[Durvayas]

Guys... guys..

Trade bars.

Allow the conversion of silver and gold into trade bars that can be exchanged at a banker for raw gold. Bonus if normal merchants buy them too.

[One Two Three Five]

Only if the philosopher's stone was charged through the sacrifice of people.

I like this idea though. The ore into money thing. I know this is an old one, but what about ways to deconstruct an item back into metal or something? Still a no go?

[Gods_Kill_People]

I would love if when done with a weapon, I could smelt it back down.

[flower]

How about to increase price of gold ingot (1 000 gp) by vendors. Gold ore will become immedeitly rare and steep in price on market.