Topic: Sel-kai coinage

[starflt]

So, when I was asked by a player what a sellin or orlin looked like, I quickly came up with the following:

For both coins, "Sel-Kai" and "One Sellin/Orlin" around the top and bottom edges on the front and back.

Sellin: Profile of Agaren Navalak's head on front side (TE ? - 4838) and an image of Eidolon with the date of its rise (3-15-4650) on the back.

Orlin: Profile of the current Prince with his coronation date (need to look this up) on the front and an image of a skyship (or regular ship) on the back.

Comments?  Other ideas?

[Hurin]

The current beta version of Treasure Law has a random coin-shape generator. I honestly never thought I would say this, but I think it might actually be useful for you.

[craggles]

Oooh yeah - that random coin table is awesome! I will find that VERY useful as well!! Time to enter all the tables into a random generator and generate loads of options for different regions.   

Why didn't you think it was useful before now - do you stick to the standard gp, sp, bp etc or are you blessed with being good at coming up with this stuff on the fly?

Personally, if it's not on a table in front of me, my mind is completely blank. And on the odd occasion that I do manage to come up with something, I end up contradicting myself.   

So if there happens to be an official Shadow World list sometime in the future, I'll be very interested! (nudge, nudge)

[Majyk]

Like IRL, coin collectors are a thing.

I am totally going to make a character that keeps detailed accounts of where their different coins come from region-wise, next PC!
They’ll have an almost child-like fascination not unlike Danny DeVito’s character from ‘Throw Momma from the Train” when recounting how he acquired each one!

Owen’s coin collection!

[Hurin]

Why didn't you think it was useful before now - do you stick to the standard gp, sp, bp etc or are you blessed with being good at coming up with this stuff on the fly?

I was just a little salty because Treasure Law seemed to have taken time to include things that were only marginally useful (e.g. a random coin shape generator) while failing to include things that were absolutely essential and present in earlier treasure books like Creatures and Treasures (e.g. random magic item tables). I believe that is being rectified now, however, and the random magic item tables will appear in the final version.

To be clear, I have no specific beef against random coin shape generators. If you like it, all power to you. I just feel that before we put those into Treasure Law, we should put random magic item tables in. I will most likely never use the former, but I will routinely use the latter.

[craggles]

That is a very good point!

[craggles]

For both coins, ...
...Comments?  Other ideas?

I forgot to mention those are awesome ideas BTW and I'll be using them as well as the random coin generator from the RMU Treasure Law.

[starflt]

Huh, thanks for the pointer to the random coin generator, but for a place as central as Sel-kai is, I would want to ground it in the lore and history of the place itself (hence my references to Navalak and Eidolon) and not just pulled off a random table.

The coins certainly don't have to be round, but I would expect that Sel-kai has the technology and know how to make round coins with anti-debasement methods, like modern coins.

[jdale]

Random tables are great for generating ideas and making you think of things you wouldn't have otherwise considered. I use Inspiration Pad Pro heavily for that sort of thing. But especially for world-building, there's no reason to feel required to use the outcome you rolled.

[egdcltd]

Now all someone needs to do is create some coin images and convert them into stl files.