*spoken in auditor monotone* “Just fill out the FG-17, ensuring you declare the total weight here and approximate value by weight here. You can use the computer over there for exchange values.”
Well obviously you keep some coins minted they way they are, sell them at double their worth in gold as rare collector’s items, and use the excess capital to buy up more gold, therefore keeping the standard relatively stable
Considering the small size of standard gold bars (we’re definitely talking at least tens of thousands of gold bars that could be made), and the high price they go for (~.5 million each), and the sheer total amount of gold we have (in terms of gold bars, probably between 12 and 19 million), the price of a yacht (between 1 and 600 million apparently for small used ones vs large new ones), she could likely buy a yacht without making too large a dent in her hoard, and by itself won’t crash the price too much to make a significant difference, if she sells all the gold, then yea the price would crash quite a bit, but even at a tenth of the current price, she’d still likely make enough for a yacht and then a few hundred million extra in revenue (if she gets about 20,000 gold bars from all the gold, it’d be about $1 billion, and that’s ignoring the few precious gemstones which depending on make and kind could add a some decent billionaire pocket change, i.e. tens of thousands of dollars).
She could buy a second home in some two-bit medieval fantasy land, and that second home could be a modestly-sized castle, and still have enough left for yacht money!
Maybe? Rules of magic tends to be capable of whatever the plot needs and some minor non-game breaking stuff so characters seem more magic, summoning things worth millions of dollars seems game-breaking, but there should be no logical reason she couldn’t unless creating/summoning stuff with magic isn’t possible or is extremely limited.
It depends on the rules of magic for a given universe; some can indeed be wildly exploited for personal benefit in “game-breaking” ways.
But a common feature in many is that things created by magic require an ongoing investment of magic or they cease to exist. So unless you keep investing magic so that the gold remains real, it disappears and people start look to find the magician who cheated them.
Sadly, still not the most short-sighted and petty villain in comics today.
What is REALLY sad, is that there are are more shortsighted and petty ones in REALITY today …. or there at least seem to be.
Of course, that’s providing it can even be brought into the real world…without it turning into sand, or something worthless
That’s the usual problem with virtual money, especially fantasy gold.
I think the IRS would have something to say about it.
In Shitropolis they probably have a separate form for declaring precious metals and gems imported from a fantasy realm.
*spoken in auditor monotone* “Just fill out the FG-17, ensuring you declare the total weight here and approximate value by weight here. You can use the computer over there for exchange values.”
I think the penny or doubloon has just dropped
of course, all that gold entering the market might devalue it
Well obviously you keep some coins minted they way they are, sell them at double their worth in gold as rare collector’s items, and use the excess capital to buy up more gold, therefore keeping the standard relatively stable
If you sell them at an amount that can still count as collectors item, you’re unlikely to even make a dent into the market value…
Considering the small size of standard gold bars (we’re definitely talking at least tens of thousands of gold bars that could be made), and the high price they go for (~.5 million each), and the sheer total amount of gold we have (in terms of gold bars, probably between 12 and 19 million), the price of a yacht (between 1 and 600 million apparently for small used ones vs large new ones), she could likely buy a yacht without making too large a dent in her hoard, and by itself won’t crash the price too much to make a significant difference, if she sells all the gold, then yea the price would crash quite a bit, but even at a tenth of the current price, she’d still likely make enough for a yacht and then a few hundred million extra in revenue (if she gets about 20,000 gold bars from all the gold, it’d be about $1 billion, and that’s ignoring the few precious gemstones which depending on make and kind could add a some decent billionaire pocket change, i.e. tens of thousands of dollars).
She could buy a second home in some two-bit medieval fantasy land, and that second home could be a modestly-sized castle, and still have enough left for yacht money!
She has magical powers… Couldn’t she simply summon an magic flying yacht on the back of a unicorn wale?
Maybe? Rules of magic tends to be capable of whatever the plot needs and some minor non-game breaking stuff so characters seem more magic, summoning things worth millions of dollars seems game-breaking, but there should be no logical reason she couldn’t unless creating/summoning stuff with magic isn’t possible or is extremely limited.
It depends on the rules of magic for a given universe; some can indeed be wildly exploited for personal benefit in “game-breaking” ways.
But a common feature in many is that things created by magic require an ongoing investment of magic or they cease to exist. So unless you keep investing magic so that the gold remains real, it disappears and people start look to find the magician who cheated them.
Josie: if she had a brain she’d be dangerous.
Maybe she can buy herself an AI with all that fantasy gold…
I have a feeling she will not be able to use this money for one reason or another.
Can’t wait to see what happens when they open all 3 boxes. “You have unleased the terror of Tom from Myspace… how could you?”