Gold is a resource in Tanglewoods: Gold that’s tracked with your 20 Strong chip. Generally, gold is spent to bribe enemies and buy from the Merchant, and gained by defeating enemies. Using gold is straightforward — spending gold reduces your total, gaining it increases your total — but there are a few necessary clarifications and additional rules.
• Your stockpile of gold can never exceed 20.
• You can never reduce your total below zero.
• If an effect or opportunity requires you to pay some amount of gold and you don’t have enough, you neither spend any gold nor receive the effect or opportunity.
• If an effect says you must “lose” or “subtract” gold, this is not optional unless otherwise stated. If you don’t have the amount specified, reduce your gold to zero, losing as much as you can.
• Gold is not a stat. Your store of gold can’t be modified by effects that increase or decrease stats.
