If you know another language’s equivalent of “cha-ching” or a similar
monetary onomatopoeia, please post it in the comments. I’m curious.
Generator automator here:
http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html
D20 |
These coins are made of |
1 |
gold. |
2 |
silver. |
3 |
copper. |
4 |
electrum. |
5 |
black amber. |
6 |
rose gold. |
7 |
platinum. |
8 |
orichalcum. |
9 |
lapis lazuli. |
10 |
solidified starlight. |
11 |
pearl-cut discs of exacting shape and lustre. |
12 |
galls cut from the world-tree. |
13 |
purple-veined porcelain. |
14 |
the iridescent elytra of a sort of flat, round beetle. |
15 |
a sort of magnetized iron that rings quietly and constantly with a harmony proportional to its purity. |
16 |
artificial adamant. |
17 |
compressed ambrosia. |
18 |
shibuichi. |
19 |
the Platonic form of value, reified and stamped. |
20 |
nephilim ivory. |
D20 |
One side of these coins |
1 |
has the stern face of a dead emperor in profile. |
2 |
has the (inaccurate and abstracted) map of the kingdom it was minted in. |
3 |
displays a jolly fat face. |
4 |
holds a stern-faced sun. |
5 |
displays a fish swimming up a waterfall. |
6 |
bears the emblem of a noble house now fallen. |
7 |
has been rubbed so much that the image it once held can’t be made out. |
8 |
bears the silhouette of the tyrant who ordered it minted. |
9 |
holds the skyline of a long-ruined city. |
10 |
holds a monkey brandishing a blade. |
11 |
displays an ambiguous figure reclining on a throne. |
12 |
holds a staring owl. |
13 |
holds a barge towed by lion-headed men. |
14 |
displays a king in resplendent garb riding a chariot pulled by stags. |
15 |
shows ants marching in a meandering line. |
16 |
has a skull with yet more coins filling its empty eye sockets. |
17 |
shows a pick striking the earth. |
18 |
bears the image of two men exchanging gifts. |
19 |
bears the image of a woman in a robe saluting. |
20 |
holds a date for a calendar nobody uses anymore. |
D20 |
The other side of these coins |
1 |
has been scratched away entirely. |
2 |
bears an unrecognizable numeral. |
3 |
is decorated by a labyrinth. |
4 |
has a prayer to a god of fair trades in calligraphic print. |
5 |
leers with seven staring eyes. |
6 |
has a crook and a crown. |
7 |
has a horse rampant. |
8 |
is inscribed with a curse on all thieves and currency debasers. |
9 |
bears sheaves of grain. |
10 |
displays an oak tree being split by a bolt of lightning. |
11 |
has radiating spokes like a wheel. |
12 |
bears a hand held open in supplication. |
13 |
has a bundle of arrows tied together. |
14 |
bears the image of opened gates. |
15 |
displays a spear piercing a heart. |
16 |
bears a burning torch. |
17 |
holds an abstract shape like a complex knot. |
18 |
shows a striding tortoise. |
19 |
shows a rooster mid-crow. |
20 |
shows a serpent twisted around a pillar. |
D20 |
These coins are shaped |
1 |
like fractal gears, with teeth within teeth within teeth. |
2 |
like flattened eggs. |
3 |
as squares. |
4 |
like a star. |
5 |
like a heart. |
6 |
somewhat like a dog’s pawprint. |
7 |
as a rectangle. |
8 |
as a trapezoid. |
9 |
as a triangle. |
10 |
with a scalloped edge. |
11 |
as a pentagon. |
12 |
as a hexagon. |
13 |
as a heptagon. |
14 |
as an octagon. |
15 |
like a spread fan. |
16 |
as a circle. |
17 |
like a leaf. |
18 |
like a bottlecap. |
19 |
like an open flower. |
20 |
as a cross. |
D20 |
These coins might be found |
1 |
in a coinpurse made from a bull’s scrotum. |
2 |
wrapped up in a bloodstained silk handkerchief. |
3 |
under the tongue and eyelids of a corpse. |
4 |
rolled up in a thick cheroot. |
5 |
with holes punched through their centers, strung on a twine necklace. |
6 |
baked into a holiday pastry. |
7 |
trampled into a patch of dirt. |
8 |
pinched between roots gnarled like arthritic knuckles. |
9 |
laid out in neat stacks on a table. |
10 |
clipped in a counterfeiter’s den. |
11 |
in the pocket of some soiled trousers caught dangling from a branch. |
12 |
along with assorted filth as the pot of some goblins’ gambling game. |
13 |
at the bottom of a clear, still pool. |
14 |
rolling towards you from under a closed door. |
15 |
in a teak box packed with old felt to prevent them from clinking. |
16 |
in the throat of a bug-eyed lizard that choked to death on them. |
17 |
in a cast-aside mendicant’s bowl. |
18 |
sewn like scales on an improvised suit of armour. |
19 |
in a wax-sealed love letter held by a severed hand. |
20 |
among shiny stones and trinkets in a wyvern’s paltry imitation-hoard. |
Or you could just use tea-bricks as currency - which actually occurred ;)
ReplyDeleteCool stuff.
In the comic book series Orc Stain, the all-orc civilization uses round slices of orc penis as currency...
ReplyDeleteThe mind boggles. Presumably claimed from the conquered?
DeleteYa, there's a whole cultural thing around it. Sometimes it's just about personal grudges and surprise dick-cutting-off attacks.
Delete