Episode 166: Wealth and Money In RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

2021-09-03

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Money and Wealth in RPGs is handled a multitude of ways from the beginning of RPGs when you just threw gold pieces at the player's characters in the 70's and 80's. Though many games still employ some sort of monetary system some newer games have decided against and accounting style monetary system where you keep a running tally of wealth. Saul and Jolene discuss monetary systems from D&D, Traveller, Shadowrun, Liminal, GURPs, SpyCraft, Space Opera and others. As always, than...

Money and Wealth in RPGs is handled a multitude of ways from the beginning of RPGs when you just threw gold pieces at the player's characters in the 70's and 80's.

Though many games still employ some sort of monetary system some newer games have decided against and accounting style monetary system where you keep a running tally of wealth.

Saul and Jolene discuss monetary systems from D&D, Traveller, Shadowrun, Liminal, GURPs, SpyCraft, Space Opera and others.

As always, thank you all for listening and especially those that share our podcast.

Music by Beggarz, song Handful of Money, off the album Cocaine Etiquette

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