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Cards77
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 10 Mar 2014 : 00:16:45
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I just adjust prices on the fly, always based off of what the COMMONER makes as a wage. This helps me impress upon the players how wealthy they really are. A lb of flour shouldn't cost more than a silver AT MOST, just as today it costs around $3. So what? Yeah the PCs are EXTREMELY wealthy, they are the superstar celebrities of their time. And bows are EXTREMELY difficult to make, and take specific skills and the materials are by comparison to raw iron, somewhat rare IMO. Also the MAN HOUR needed to create a longbow would be higher than a long sword IMO. There are all qualities of sword, crappy iron swords up to katana level. Bows are a bit more....static. Either something functions as a bow, or it doesn't...to a certain extent. That's how I justify the long bows.
Also, there is INHERENTLY more value in the ability to kill from a distance than to get up close and put yourself in danger.
The PCs have more gold than any 100 commeners would ever dream about.
The real troubling questions are: where did all this gold come from? There would need to be thousands of gold mines all over Toril to account for this sheer amount of currency.
I think where at least I as a DM falls down is the use of the barter economy. Barter is king in FR. It's not possible for this many gold pieces to exist. The PCs will need to deal with this fact, and may have to undertake a very dangerous journey to get real value from their Gem of Seeing. |
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