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<blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 4534157" data-attributes="member: 40109"><p>It's not. I'll shed some light:</p><p> </p><p>The PCs (five 1st-levels) have plenty of cash on hand--about 160 gp total. They have had only two combat encounters so far; in the first, they got some money off the corpses, the second was the dire rats.</p><p> </p><p>As for <em>why</em> the player is trying to sell rat-meat, here is the original e-mail exchange between him and the DM:</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue"><strong>Player:</strong> I'd like to know if there's a healer in town and how much he would charge to heal Harada and Mugsby. Without magical help it's going to take us six days of full bed rest to completely recover by RAW. Mugsby might get a little angry at the lack of companionship in a week's time, but he would tolerate that much downtime...</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: plum"><strong>DM:</strong> Andy's character has some information about the availability of magical healing in town. I don't want to say any more about that at this time, because it is in-game knowledge that Mugsby doesn't have.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue"><strong>Player:</strong> Rigsby might also be able to use craft trapmaking to earn some money and Mugsby could try to use survival to earn some cash. A half a pound of meat is worth 3 silver pieces, which on average is about what Mugsby would be able to round up every day by taking 10 on Survival (13 total), or about 2 gp a week. Also, how much did the rats weigh? Could we sell them for about 5 copper per pound?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: plum"><strong>DM:</strong> No one wants to buy your disgusting rat-meat, barbarian! And I don't want to expand the Survival skill's usefulness into making money, but an untrained craftsperson can earn 1 sp/day. Also, Mugsby could try picking a pocket or two (risky, though!) with his Sleight of Hand skill. Rigsby (and any other trained craftsmen) can earn half his Craft check result in gp per week, on a day-to-day basis if he wants.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue"><strong>Player:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: deepskyblue">Oh come on, a couple of silver per day for selling meat, which has a RAW value? Unbalanced?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: deepskyblue">And those rats should be worth something! There's no chicken in every pot around Oakhurst is there? I thought 5 copper per pound was undercutting RAW honestly. Small creatures are about 25 pounds and you figure there's some fur and leather in there. They should be worth at least 3 gold and 75 silvers. Those things are dangerous, and I doubt people walk into town with them everyday. They're rodents of UNUSUAL size! And they come from [the legendary dungeon-site]!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: deepskyblue">Be a yes DM, not a no DM, please? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: white">It should also be mentioned that Mugsby is a barbarian from a far-off land where rats might be considered perfectly normal food.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vegepygmy, post: 4534157, member: 40109"] It's not. I'll shed some light: The PCs (five 1st-levels) have plenty of cash on hand--about 160 gp total. They have had only two combat encounters so far; in the first, they got some money off the corpses, the second was the dire rats. As for [I]why[/I] the player is trying to sell rat-meat, here is the original e-mail exchange between him and the DM: [COLOR=deepskyblue][B]Player:[/B] I'd like to know if there's a healer in town and how much he would charge to heal Harada and Mugsby. Without magical help it's going to take us six days of full bed rest to completely recover by RAW. Mugsby might get a little angry at the lack of companionship in a week's time, but he would tolerate that much downtime...[/COLOR] [COLOR=plum][B]DM:[/B] Andy's character has some information about the availability of magical healing in town. I don't want to say any more about that at this time, because it is in-game knowledge that Mugsby doesn't have.[/COLOR] [COLOR=deepskyblue][B]Player:[/B] Rigsby might also be able to use craft trapmaking to earn some money and Mugsby could try to use survival to earn some cash. A half a pound of meat is worth 3 silver pieces, which on average is about what Mugsby would be able to round up every day by taking 10 on Survival (13 total), or about 2 gp a week. Also, how much did the rats weigh? Could we sell them for about 5 copper per pound?[/COLOR] [COLOR=plum][B]DM:[/B] No one wants to buy your disgusting rat-meat, barbarian! And I don't want to expand the Survival skill's usefulness into making money, but an untrained craftsperson can earn 1 sp/day. Also, Mugsby could try picking a pocket or two (risky, though!) with his Sleight of Hand skill. Rigsby (and any other trained craftsmen) can earn half his Craft check result in gp per week, on a day-to-day basis if he wants.[/COLOR] [COLOR=deepskyblue][B]Player:[/B] [/COLOR][FONT=Arial][COLOR=deepskyblue]Oh come on, a couple of silver per day for selling meat, which has a RAW value? Unbalanced?[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=deepskyblue]And those rats should be worth something! There's no chicken in every pot around Oakhurst is there? I thought 5 copper per pound was undercutting RAW honestly. Small creatures are about 25 pounds and you figure there's some fur and leather in there. They should be worth at least 3 gold and 75 silvers. Those things are dangerous, and I doubt people walk into town with them everyday. They're rodents of UNUSUAL size! And they come from [the legendary dungeon-site]![/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=deepskyblue]Be a yes DM, not a no DM, please? :)[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=white]It should also be mentioned that Mugsby is a barbarian from a far-off land where rats might be considered perfectly normal food.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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