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<blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 7951859" data-attributes="member: 6932123"><p>As for the value of the diamond, I think that's more of a meta-rule than an in-universe rule. It's a rule for the <em>player</em>, not the character, because what it's really there for is to be a resource sink to use up and stress the gold supply of the characters, which is what all wealth translates to.</p><p></p><p>The rules could have said, "This spell requires a 2 carat diamond, which is consumed on use", but then the question becomes, "How much does a 2 carat diamond cost? How many of them can I get? Do I need a gemcrafter's toolkit to appraise the diamonds?", and then you need to put in a rule set for scaling gem sizes to gold costs (for all types of gems), and it's just a lot of extra overhead for no real gain. Instead, you just have a 50 GP onyx, or a 500 GP topaz, etc.</p><p></p><p>... Hey, did you know that diamonds aren't listed in the 5E DM's guide's gem tables, in the 100 GP – 1000 GP range? The only one listed is for 5000 GP. Curious.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I'd guess that the 300 GP/500 GP/1000 GP costs for the spells really translate to 1 carat/2 carats/3 carats (it's a non-linear curve). Once you do it that way, then the Ragnar scam doesn't really work (though a scam with cubic zirconia would likely still be possible, but without it still working for spells).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kinematics, post: 7951859, member: 6932123"] As for the value of the diamond, I think that's more of a meta-rule than an in-universe rule. It's a rule for the [I]player[/I], not the character, because what it's really there for is to be a resource sink to use up and stress the gold supply of the characters, which is what all wealth translates to. The rules could have said, "This spell requires a 2 carat diamond, which is consumed on use", but then the question becomes, "How much does a 2 carat diamond cost? How many of them can I get? Do I need a gemcrafter's toolkit to appraise the diamonds?", and then you need to put in a rule set for scaling gem sizes to gold costs (for all types of gems), and it's just a lot of extra overhead for no real gain. Instead, you just have a 50 GP onyx, or a 500 GP topaz, etc. ... Hey, did you know that diamonds aren't listed in the 5E DM's guide's gem tables, in the 100 GP – 1000 GP range? The only one listed is for 5000 GP. Curious. Personally, I'd guess that the 300 GP/500 GP/1000 GP costs for the spells really translate to 1 carat/2 carats/3 carats (it's a non-linear curve). Once you do it that way, then the Ragnar scam doesn't really work (though a scam with cubic zirconia would likely still be possible, but without it still working for spells). [/QUOTE]
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