Talk:Equipment

I am considering using the script capital R (Unicode U+211B) ℛ as the symbol for the Formourian Royal. This is equal to a full pound of gold, and would be used more as a unit of account than an actual currency. There is such a coin, but it isn't widely circulated. Many moons ago, the British pound was similarly used as a unit of account only. That is, there were no 1£ coins or notes; pounds were used only as a way to track large sums of money, being equal to a pound of sterling silver (tower pound). Alternate symbols include: ℟, ℜ, 𝕽, 𝕽, ℝ, ᚱ, Ʀ, Ɍ, Ɽ, or 尺.

Price listings can get complicated enough as-is, so I highly doubt that I'll ever use Royals alongside another coin. That is, I won't ever price anything like 10ℛ9 ₲8ƒ7¢. A ship might be priced at 600ℛ and leave it at that.

I suppose if I really wanted a large unit of account, I could use ℔, or something like that, for Bizzannite Imperial Bullion. It's four pounds of platinum, worth 8000 ducats/florins (eight times the size of the Royal). That makes it rather suitable for buying castles or large ships as a unit of account. Alternative symbols for this coin (actually more of a bar) include: ฿, Ƀ, Б, β, 阝, or ב. Or maybe some of the bajillion symbols that could stand in for the letter 'I'.

Unfortunately, the problem with infrequently used characters is that they aren't found in every font set. That means that some of you reading this are going to get a bunch of wonky-looking boxes on this page instead of the various characters.

This is all still up in the air right now, and this idea will probably never go anywhere... in spite of too many hours wasted digging through Unicode for suitable currency symbols.
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