@TheEdVerse What is the typical method used by temple's clergy to acquire powdered silver for certain cleric spells/holy water? Is it perhaps a mechanical device; something portable that an adventuring party can use to grind silver coins while on the go?
— Torvik🍁 (@TorvikW) October 14, 2019
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It is. It’s a made-by-dwarves adamantine box that separates into two halves for loading/unloading, and is held together with massive screws binding projecting edge-seams. Coins go in the box, and a smooth-spoke-wheeled-grip 2)
…(like old porcelain real-world bathtub Hot & Cold knobs, but also of adamantine) fat screw set into the top of the box, that has rough-diamond-tipped “point threads,” is screwed slowly down into the box, grinding the coins…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2019
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…coins as it goes. This is a “while away the time around the fireside of evenings” task that builds hand strength; travelers typically hand the box around to each other to “have a go” and then pass it on.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 14, 2019