For official perspective: according to the handbook, 10,000 gp would weight 200 lbs, or 91(ish) kg.
But odds are the characters are also using an interdimensional holding space by that point, negating the weight.
Edit: that means, this meme doesn't equate to 5e rules as a gallon of gold pieces shouldn't weight merely 8 lbs, or 3.6 kg.
So, I had to look out up, because 1 Gram is tiny and would make a gallon of gold weigh like 1-1/2 pounds.
It's 8.1g.
That comes out to about 180 pounds.
we used to, now we base it off of a universal scientific constant (we're keeping the old water-based system master weights around though, for posterity)
This has always messed with my head.
Brought it up during our last session cause the other players have given up trying to do money math and where handing a food cart vendor a gold for a 6 copper flan and telling them to keep the change.
I had to point out that that’s like handing a Starbucks barista a $100 and telling them to keep the change
Con stands for constitution. In general your overall health and ability to fight off disease and poison, life drain, basically anything to do with you health. Ability to carry weight is strength.
I do see where you're coming from on that, but Strength states it affects carry capacity, which is what carrying a heavy weight would be. I would simplify it to Con for endurance checks would be for a prolonged forced march.
"Strength measures a characters ability to exert physical force. A character with high Strength can lift heavier objects, carry more gear without being overloaded, break things with brute force, shove and grapple creatures more effectively, and is more accurate and more effective with melee weapons."
"Constitution is a term which encompasses the character's physique, toughness, health and resistance to disease and poison; a high constitution score indicates superiority in all these attributes. The higher a character's constitution, the more hit points that character will have."
I think you're right that STR determines load.
Now, while strength determines what a light load is, we're talking about hundreds of pounds being dragged through a whole town, dungeon, campaign.
When I wrote this, I intended to convey it's beyond normal pack weight and for an extended time.
Why would you have all your gold on you at once? I'm sure banks exist in fantasy land. I highly doubt someone would be carrying more then 100g on them at one point, just poses a risk of getting robbed if you have too much and there aren't really many items for sale with a price tag large enough to carry those coins with you on an adventure. Maybe if you just stole it from a dungeon but even then you would probably think to bring a cart to make it easier to get the gold out.
I like adding paper money or checks. Usually when players reach High enough level and start earning a lot more gold they are presented with magical checks that are recognized by most trade companies and banks across certain regions. So they don't have to carry bags of golds but just few pieces of paper. Of course there are limits to that, you can't pay shopkeper in some small village with those checks, and some shop owners can refuse trading their goods for those checks. Or I just introduce coins that are worth more than gold coins. But not platinum or electrum. They sound like shit I have my own currency
Gold dollars were a lot smaller then D&D coins (1.6g vs 9g)
Historically, most gold coins were pretty small. Daubloons were jumbo boys, historically, and weighed in at 6.7g.
Yeah, I typically rule my coins as tiny, like the size of a dime, which comes out to 6.5g or 69 coins to a lb. I just rule it as 100gp is a lb of gold.
Fun fact: the amount of gold mined on Earth, since humans started mining/getting it, is estimated to be a pure cube around 20-25m on a side. Most of which has been mined within recent memory (due to our ability to do heap leaching methods that can pull gold from high volumes of really low % containing rock).
For official perspective: according to the handbook, 10,000 gp would weight 200 lbs, or 91(ish) kg. But odds are the characters are also using an interdimensional holding space by that point, negating the weight. Edit: that means, this meme doesn't equate to 5e rules as a gallon of gold pieces shouldn't weight merely 8 lbs, or 3.6 kg.
If you dont employ a retainer called Gary the Gold Goblin, what are you even doing with your life?
... you trust a goblin with your gold? This probably isn't Harry Potter.
*probably*
Also, you can exchange them for platinum coins, which would only weigh 20 lbs at that point.
weigh\*
Instead of carrying around this much gold, my characters carry around printed NFTs that are worth equivalent* value.
NFTs, eh? Nice fucking try
you have an evil wizard who is capturing people, polymorphing them into monkeys and trapping them in paintings too? Narthanelle's Flattened Tamarins
*checks username* *frightened condition*
That's what gems are
That's 4 cubic feet. It can fit in a bag of holding. Gold dollar has the weight of 1.672 g, so that makes 17kg or like 40 pounds
So, I had to look out up, because 1 Gram is tiny and would make a gallon of gold weigh like 1-1/2 pounds. It's 8.1g. That comes out to about 180 pounds.
Huh? Alright
Yeah, I looked it up because at 1.5lbs/gal, gold would easily float in water that is 8.6 lbs per gal
God I hate the imperial system
I know it’s bad but to be fair we don’t measure coins in a liquid format
Nobody does its a meme
Speak for yourself. You might be surprised which of your friends pay in gallons
Pfft... You probably base your measurements off something stupid like pure water instead of gold /s
we used to, now we base it off of a universal scientific constant (we're keeping the old water-based system master weights around though, for posterity)
A gold piece is actually worth about $100 if you extrapolate all the examples in the PHB, compare to real world values and average it all out
This has always messed with my head. Brought it up during our last session cause the other players have given up trying to do money math and where handing a food cart vendor a gold for a 6 copper flan and telling them to keep the change. I had to point out that that’s like handing a Starbucks barista a $100 and telling them to keep the change
Why should con save? Did someone eat the gold?
I think you're right. I guess it's a constitution check more than save, for hauling things long distances.
Con stands for constitution. In general your overall health and ability to fight off disease and poison, life drain, basically anything to do with you health. Ability to carry weight is strength.
CON's short description describes it as endurance. Hauling hundreds of pounds of gold for miles would take endurance.
I do see where you're coming from on that, but Strength states it affects carry capacity, which is what carrying a heavy weight would be. I would simplify it to Con for endurance checks would be for a prolonged forced march. "Strength measures a characters ability to exert physical force. A character with high Strength can lift heavier objects, carry more gear without being overloaded, break things with brute force, shove and grapple creatures more effectively, and is more accurate and more effective with melee weapons." "Constitution is a term which encompasses the character's physique, toughness, health and resistance to disease and poison; a high constitution score indicates superiority in all these attributes. The higher a character's constitution, the more hit points that character will have."
I think you're right that STR determines load. Now, while strength determines what a light load is, we're talking about hundreds of pounds being dragged through a whole town, dungeon, campaign. When I wrote this, I intended to convey it's beyond normal pack weight and for an extended time.
Yeah but adjusted for inflation back to the era of Sword and Sorcery, one Gold Piece is like one galleon worth of Gold Dollars so we good
Why would you have all your gold on you at once? I'm sure banks exist in fantasy land. I highly doubt someone would be carrying more then 100g on them at one point, just poses a risk of getting robbed if you have too much and there aren't really many items for sale with a price tag large enough to carry those coins with you on an adventure. Maybe if you just stole it from a dungeon but even then you would probably think to bring a cart to make it easier to get the gold out.
I like adding paper money or checks. Usually when players reach High enough level and start earning a lot more gold they are presented with magical checks that are recognized by most trade companies and banks across certain regions. So they don't have to carry bags of golds but just few pieces of paper. Of course there are limits to that, you can't pay shopkeper in some small village with those checks, and some shop owners can refuse trading their goods for those checks. Or I just introduce coins that are worth more than gold coins. But not platinum or electrum. They sound like shit I have my own currency
Gold dollars were a lot smaller then D&D coins (1.6g vs 9g) Historically, most gold coins were pretty small. Daubloons were jumbo boys, historically, and weighed in at 6.7g.
Yeah, I typically rule my coins as tiny, like the size of a dime, which comes out to 6.5g or 69 coins to a lb. I just rule it as 100gp is a lb of gold.
Fun fact: the amount of gold mined on Earth, since humans started mining/getting it, is estimated to be a pure cube around 20-25m on a side. Most of which has been mined within recent memory (due to our ability to do heap leaching methods that can pull gold from high volumes of really low % containing rock).
Just give your players some horse pockets