Favourite fictional currency?
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I like the Souls from Dark souls what a concept! they are exp and a currency. Its a clever concept but not something I'd want in most games.
Bitcoins! no wait, those are pretty useless. 
But seriously, I've always liked Gil, as I liked Final Fantasy
But seriously, I've always liked Gil, as I liked Final Fantasy
Souls; they make sense from both an in-game and a mechanical standpoint, and I love how you can get dialogue like this from the vendors.
Rai Stones:
"Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals.[2] Rai stones were mined in Palau and transported for use to the island of Yap, Micronesia. They have been used in trade by the locals and are described by some observers as a form of currency."
So basically giant fuck off rocks... Try and steal that, Robin Hood! You stocking wearing little forest tit!
"Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals.[2] Rai stones were mined in Palau and transported for use to the island of Yap, Micronesia. They have been used in trade by the locals and are described by some observers as a form of currency."
So basically giant fuck off rocks... Try and steal that, Robin Hood! You stocking wearing little forest tit!
Hats from Team Fortress 2, shhhhhhh totally counts. I mean when going to the shops who wouldn't want to rather wear multiple hats on their head than carry money in a wallet? A-ha-ha! You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and IRISH. Tarnish notte the majesty of my TOWER of HATS.
I really like the Moolah from the Oddworld games. It's just a really fun word to say, particularly in The Stranger's accent. Moolah. Moo-lah.
Also the arrowheads from Psychonauts. "They buried their dead here?" "No silly, they buried their arrowheads here!"
Also the arrowheads from Psychonauts. "They buried their dead here?" "No silly, they buried their arrowheads here!"
Rupees. I like my money to look like pirate swag. I'd carry it around in a hollowed out baby octorock.
Bottlecaps, won my heart really. Well I know they switched to paper money after Fallout 1, but still, having bottlecaps as cash was just so novel
Now the question is, why make that much water breathing potion? Hoping to move all of humanity underwater at some point?silver wolf009 said:Adventure Quest is big on the, "Silly ingenious" sort of thing.elvor0 said:That's almost ingenious it's silliness, an in universe reason for monsters dropping pocket change! Someone tell Peter Molonenyu!silver wolf009 said:I like the gold from Adventure Quest, not because it's cool on its own, but because of their wealth distribution system. The one ranger girl is quite proud of how she steals from people and gives money to monsters.
How do you think this dumb son of a ***** got 200 bucks?
On topic: Rupees, mainly because they're precious gems, so all my money is pwetty-full.
It's like how they explain your ability to fight a monster underwater for hours, because ages ago there was an industrial accident and millions of gallons of water breathing potions were infused with the sea, infecting the hydrosphere, leading to all water being breathable.
Souls. Improve your stats, buy things, upgrade your weapons, redistribute your power among others or continue the Age of Fire, so versatile. And they even make themselves obvious when you misplace them!
ANY fictional currency?
I obviously go with the Triganic Ningi [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy], a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side.
Sadly, they're not very tradable or negotiable, based on that the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.
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I obviously go with the Triganic Ningi [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy], a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side.
Sadly, they're not very tradable or negotiable, based on that the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.
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I would have to go with the Goth from the old Ogre Battle games (64, Tactics ogre). Given the fact that we NEVER actually see them or hear about them I like to think that the currency is in fact actual goths, of the mid 90s popularity. But as to how one would keep a large group of what I think are the ancestors of emos and use them as currency is beyond me. Still amusing to me however.