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Recent discussions about hypothetical D&D economies led me to look into Roman currency. Here is a great wikipedia image of the common currency in the 27 BC - 100 AD Roman era.
So instead of copper, silver, electrum gold (the D&D standard), the early Roman Empire used various iterations of Bronze, Orichalcum, Silver, Billon, and Gold.
And today I learned Billon is the name for an alloy of silver and gold, or silver and copper, or silver and gold and copper, or basically any alloy of silver and some base metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Imperial_period:_27_BC_%E2%80%93_AD_476
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How do the leaders of your world learn to fight?
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Messed around with making a zodiac constellation chart for my homebrew campaign. It probably will not come up in play but I sometimes think just making things lends a certain versimilitude to the game. Plus, it might lead to other ideas.
I based the zodiac after the real zodiac but sometimes changed the names, sometimes changed the constellation to be one very near, or sometimes made it up.
Now that I am done, I can not rule out that maybe The Elder Scrolls influenced my choices in some subconscious sort of way.
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How will your world end?
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Like many, I gape in awe at the beautiful, hand-crafted dice; the gemstone dice; the artisanally crafted, petrified redwood dice. I even briefly fell into the "zomg metal dice!" trap at one point.
You know what I want in my RPG dice? Legibility. I want to roll the die, glance at it, and instantly know what the result is. I want speed and efficiency. I also don't want to spend $100 on something I will have now spent so much money on that I'll hesitate to even use.
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Is there a TTRPG system and campaign already built that:
- is simple enough for 3.5 year olds
- includes dice rolling
- non violent problem solving
- fantasy setting
Would love to introduce my kiddo to TTRPGs, Role Playing, Dice Rolling, and Collaborative Story Telling but don't want conflict, violence, etc. to be an element of the problem solving.
Would prefer not to build my own systems and campaign but not sure if anything is out there with these requirements.