[Rq-rules] Coinage Exchange and Encumbrance

[Frank L Filz]

> I've been trying to find details on the exchange rate of 
> coinage (copper to silver to gold) in Glorantha as well as 
> the encumbrance of coins and for the life of me I can't find it!
> 
> Could some kind soul point me to where the above info is 
> published? I have all the RQIII publications and a bit of the 
> RQII ones as well. 

According to RQ2 p.15, 100 silver coins (lunars) equals 1 ENC. Wheels are
twice as big. Clacks are the same size. Who cares about bolgs. Gems are half
as large as a silver coin. Rings are three times as large. Necklaces range
from three to ten times as large.

(I see Joe Mills beat me to that while I was searching the RQ3 rules... And
of course as he mentioned, the exchange is 200 clacks, 20 lunars, 1 wheel).

For RQ3:

Per page 44 of the Players Book, 1 ENC is approximately 1kg.

Per page 18 of the Gamemaster Book, gems range from 5 pennies per gram
(turqoise) to 50 pennies per gram (diamond).

For the life of me, I can't find the weight of coins... It's probably ok to
use the same 100 pennies to the kg/ENC.

All prices in RQ3 are in silver pennies. The Glorantha book in the boxed set
mentions lunars in the Ernalda writeup, but unless I'm missing something
somewhere, it doesn't mention that a lunar is a silver penny.

Personally, I generally don't worry about it. To be honest, it should be
pretty rare to actually find enough cash to have to worry about encumbrance
(and a good dragon horde, that's big enough for a dragon to sleep on,
represents an absurd amount of coinage).

Frank