Ah Now I see why he couldn't use his draconic authority on the kobold. Hes too fucking stupid.

Stupid do as stupid be-
Wait that's not quite right-

Stupid is as Stupid does, sweetheart <3

Actually, dragons help to keep the money stable by collecting gold and preventing inflation, so basing your monetary system on something else might not be so good idea... ;)

But also at the same time vulnerable to sudden crashes if, say, one of these hoarding dragons is taken down by a knight, or a full-on army if the hoard is large enough to warrant such.

While a knight would indeed got rich quick, the overall amount of money in the system would most likely not be changed as drastically as to crash as a whole (though there could be a local crash). And hiring a full army would not be profitable, since each soldier would get probably just a couple of coins (even if those slain would be excluded). It's just not worth it, waging a war against a dragon. If dragons were a kingdom, then maybe, but on a solitary one? Nope, I don't think so. I still say it's more stable than paper money which can literally change value by whole orders of magnitude overnight.

Granted, I'm not an economist, but seeing money worth being gradually less and less, or artificially kept at a stable level when it could be growing has me doubtful.

it would likely end up depending on the dragons hoard as well.

let say you take an army of 10 000 knights/mage/whatever trained man,... let's double that 20 000 men !
that may not be the entire army of a country, but that's a huge task force

Now imagine you gave 10kg of gold to each one, that's a fortune for each one of them (except maybe few legendary heroes/mercenary I guess )

In grand total that would be 200 tons of gold

Now look at his lair .... there is far more than 200 tons of gold

And now you had to consider one thing : all this gold is stolen (plus maybe some agreements ), andhad wrecked havoc to obtain it, this guy is a walking natural disaster, if he's gone all of this will stop, so sending ana rmy is not just a quick cash grab but an investment.

A complete mystery for sure.. he should go investigate XD

…………….*cough*Ahem, moving on.

LMAO

I couldn't imagine why gold is an unstable currency in a world of dragons. it's such a mystery.

What colors is the dragon again ? X3c

This could very easily be a metaphor for how capitalism works these days.

Oh! I get it now, he's a moron. I thought he was just a bit old school, I didn't realize he was this dumb.

this comic is PURE GOLD........................................

This derg really has nothing in that head of his, huh?

I mean, i doubt on the inestability of gold aside from the fact that the superinflaction due scarsity would be so wild as to make it unusable.

*literally dies of laughter*

... Bruh

he's so clueless and it's adorable

This is why we need remind that grandpa dragon that is not 1668 is 2023

What an idiot 😂

Let's create a currency based on how much gold the dragon has. Then we can just give him gold while our currency goes way up in value.

"you don't have any gold coins ?"
Since our poor dragon is powerless at getting rid of his intruder, can't the kobold just steal some of his gold ? So effectively our little kobold would had unlimited funds.