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> Now, this is a mess of a post, but I got inspired by posters like u/mightykin and u/Swing-Dancing-Dragon in another thread who wanted to see more bloggy stuff about bizarre bullshit. I dusted off a blogpost I was drafting a couple months ago and finished it tonight. In this case, it's an intro post about my design thoughts and tech stack developing a game for MS-DOS (mostly just about MS-DOS tech and how the stack works, rather than about the game itself, but I figure the stack would be interesting as well). Would be glad to hear your weeping and gnashing of teeth.

> No intelligence, artificial or otherwise, was used in constructing this post, and I am promoting nothing.

A relatively short (~4.5k) post about what I've decided to spend some time on, and how I got MS-DOS to comply

Inspired by the recent post on this sub, I was left wondering something else: are there RPG systems where somewhat complicated money systems are involved and have to be used. I am thinking of either things like multiple competing currencies with possible interchange (something I saw attempted only in like Fallout: New Vegas), or where a somewhat complicated existing non-decimal single currency is used (think predecimal Pound sterling, which I've only seen used in the videogame Book of Hours). In 'traditional' RPGs (not that I know a lot about them), I haven't seen anything go in this direction. It's understandable why it's rare: it's hard to make money a fun mechanic, and making it even more complicated than just a single coin/dollar/credit value to track won't help it. That being said, are there any systems that lean into this that you know of?

EDIT: Oh boy this got a lot of great responses real quick!