Sterling
Converts a given D&D 5e currency value to the Silver Standard. Inspired by the Reddit posts titled The Silver Hack: Making Money Matter, and I make Silver Standard for 5th Edition (Spreadsheets.).
Usage
sterling [VALUE]...
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
ARGS:
<VALUE>... The value to be converted; should be suffixed with the coin's short-hand
abbreviation, i.e. p, g, e, s, or c. Defaults coin type to 'g'.
Examples
// Convert one hundred platinum coins:
sterling 100p // 10g
// Convert one hundred platinum, fifty gold coins:
sterling 100p 50g // 10g 5s
// Convert fifteen thousand copper coins:
sterling 15000c // 1g 50s
// Convert one platinum, thirty-six gold, twelve electrum, eighty-two silver, and four hundred
// sixty-nine copper coins
sterling 1p 36g 12e 82s 469c // 64s 89c
Abstract
Items and expenses are, by default, assigned arbitrary currency values within the official D&D 5th edition source books. Many of the officially priced items use the "Gold Standard"; that is, items are priced in gold coins by default. While there is nothing wrong with using official currency values within your campaign, it leads to the perceived value of gold to be less in the eyes of your players. Gold has been sought after as both a commodity and a currency for centuries, and your campaign aught to treat gold similarly!
Explanation
The basis of the Silver Standard treats 1 gold coin from the official D&D 5e source books as 1 silver coin, and that there are one hundred of a given coin to every one of the next highest valued coin. That's all. Thus, one hundred fifty copper coins equals one silver and fifty copper coins, while a suit of heavy plate armor equals fifteen gold coins, rather than fifteen hundred.
Installation
Make sure that you first have rust
and cargo
installed onto your computer before downloading
sterling
. Just follow the simple
Installation Guide on the
official Rust language website to install both programs.
Once rust
and cargo
are installed onto your computer, run the following command:
cargo install sterling
This will install sterling
into the .cargo/bin
directory within your User directory
(/home/YOUR_USER_NAME
on Linux and macOS, C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME
on Windows). Be sure to add
this directory to your PATH.