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Scribblings - Gold, treasure, lairs, amounts !Gold, its odd stuff. I remember when a party killed a dragon. I told them about how the dragon sat on a huge pile of treasure and that got me thinking (never a good thing). I thought to myself how much would actually be there? I spent a lot of my time in arcades playing strange video games and trying not to go out into the sun. As a result I used to see these machines with paddles that pushed at masses of 2p coins. There appeared to be millions of pounds worth in there, I mean if that was a million pounds then imagine how much gold a dragon must be sitting on?So I tried to work it out, I needed a nice easy unit of measurement, so I cheated. I decided all my gold coins would be square. I then decided that 10 gold coins in a stack would make a 1 inch square. Well once I had that it was easy :) Take a treasure chest, one that is 2 feet by 1 foot by 1 foot (a small chest) and lets work it out :) The chest holds 2 cubic feet of coins, we know one cubic foot is 12 x 12 x 12 cubic inches (or 1728 cubic inches). Because we are using our nice simple square coins we know that a stack of 10 is one cubic inch. That means our chest could hold 34560 gold coins ! Granted that assumes they are all stacked in neat little piles but you get the general idea. So if a chest can hold 35k's worth of gold, imagine what a dragon horde could have ! Dragons are generally seen to be huge, we will take a tiny 24 foot dragon for our example though. This dragon has a pile of coins surrounding it, the piles is 14 feet across and 24 feet wide. Lets be generous and discount the first 2 feet on each side of the dragon. Lets also say the dragons pile of gold is only 1 foot deep (where as most assume the dragons pile is taller than a full grown man!). That leaves a pile 10 x 20 x 1 foot hardly a massive gold pile my any means but its still 345,600 gold coins ! So the next time you wander into a room and the DM says the entire room is filled with gold.. just remember.. we are talking a LOT of gold :) Back to the Scribblings : Scribblings
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