Do I get a medal now?
Dragonfolk2000
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I now have over 100k gold. Does this mean I win?
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Dragonfolk2000
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This doesn't actually happen, but I'm tempted to make a feature request.
j/k ;p
Anyone can hoard. You can get a medal only if you go through the game completely poor. Never have any gold on your party and any gold you obtain must be donated to a temple immediately.
Then once you killed Saravok, the game checks to make sure you don't have any gold or spent any gold, If you haven't it will give you the medal of Illmater. A divine object that gives bonus priest spells, spell resistance and a thaco boost that you can use for the rest of the game.
Which will then be taken by Irenicus and used against you.
Magic Missile aaaaaaaaaand it's gone.
Someone make that a meme with that one South Park picture.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/14495/neera-and-stockpiling-gems-and-jewellery
Actually I've seen some people reporting it happening to them twice in the same playthrough.
Also: What about in PnP when your party gets that rich? Does carrying an insane amount of gold factor in how you're able to carry it?
If we got really rich we would use a bag of holding and fill it with gold. You could put a lot of money in one of those.
Now the reality of the matter is, based on the technology of the period, a gold coin probably weighs something closer to a 10th of a lb. Doing that math, 100k gold coins probably weigh a good deal more than 10,000 lbs. And would be hughly too bulky to carry around too boot. Realistically I'd say maybe 2* as much as a silver dollar (26.7 grams) making a grand total of 11,772.69 lbs for that money. I'm not carrying that much around my belt.
My old DM back in my PnP games would always nick us on this point. If we carried around any more than 100 gp, we ran a HUGE risk of getting pick-pocketed. His argument was, these things were twice the size of a Silver Dollar, so 100 would be VERY obvious to carry around. and he had a point (not that the DM needed to justify or anything, but it was nice when he did make sense). We 'Could' exchange for gems, but usually at a significant 'Exchange Rate'. And if we (extremely rarely) came across something like a Dragon hoard, we had to be very careful about how much treasure we hauled out of there. And one time we found a bag of holding that, after being filled up to the brim with gold and gems, mysteriously Ripped. Some Extra planar being became Immensely wealthy that day.
Since I don't think any sort of reliable Banking system would exist outside of Baldur's Gate, I'd say that gems would be the next most logical possibility.