Posted: May 27, 1999 at 17:33:06: by Frederic
: I am trying to run a role playing game in ME and it is kinda tricky to bart for everything, every time you rest at an inn etc... I hope you see my problem... If I knew how common e.g silver is, I could create a monetary system that had some connection to ME, though I hate this "1 gold-piece = 10 silver-pieces" Hello Dai,
I do not know if you are familiar with ICE RPG products about Middle-Earth, but most of their campaign modules give detail of monetary systems in use in the region concerned, and tend to improve greatly on the 10 for 1 basic stuff (different weights and equivalences for diff races and places...)
(Of course this is no ICE advocacy but they sometimes do interesting job too !)
I guess you could though imagine this thing yourself. But I do not think much material can be found in Tolkien for such a purpose, though there definitely are some retail prices to be found in early chapters of LOTR, around the Shire and Bree, especially the Prancing Pony. I do not have the book here but I remember Gandalf handing a silver coin to Butterbur on behalf of the good news he learns there about the Hobbits and Aragorn (told at Elrond's ?).
Hope this can help
Frederic
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