Last week, the online store for my favorite non-WOTC D&D page, EN World, was selling a PDF of money cards. This eliminates the bookkeeping of the money in the game was the seller’s argument and for a mere $6.95 I could download it for my own usage. Not a bad idea really since visual props for D&D are nice. If they help make the game flow better, that’s always an enhancement I favor. But I used to be a typesetter for kinko’s and GDW plus I spent over $200 on the latest version of QuarkXpress so I chose to do this myself. I had a disagreement with their example anyway, there were no weights with the denominations of coins. Yes, I know. D&D is just a game so “realism” is a waste of time when it’s an abstract system trying to make the Fantasy genre tangible through dice, paper and miniatures. Yet letting the heroes stroll around with thousands of coins as if the total weight were equal to my ATM/Debit card is rather lame. Now the weights of that many gold pieces is present to save time. I hope it works out. I guess I’ll see at the next session, everyone’s health and unpredictable children permitting.