Why Do We Use Gold? Scarcity is Good?! Fantasy Setting Economics and Considerations - D&D 5E

Ew, gross! We have to LEARN stuff? Yeah...well. It's that or you keep wondering why the economies in various worlds are wonky (real or imagined). Anyway, what do the people of our setting value and why? Let's talk at an Economics 101 level and discover the fun we can have in finding out what it is these people value.

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