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I always appreciate Gary Ray's insights into his store's market. One thing he pointed out a while back is that 5e is selling more efficiently than Pathfinder is. They are both selling in similar numbers, but 5e does it with only 9 products. (Which is what I think Mad Zagyg could have pointed...

Conversely it could mean that people are buying twice as many Pathfinder products because they tend to have half the pricepoint. Actually though, all it means is that at one major hobby store they are both selling about equally when it comes to that stores profit.

In my adventure, Up from Darkness, (which would make an excellent Halloween adventure) the PCs wake with no memory of themselves, but they don't actually have to decide which of them lives or dies. Likewise the FATE adventure, published by Rite Publishing, The Demolished Ones, has PCs with no...

So, while I was researching arrows recently, I ran across the Youtube channel of Lindybeige, which has some really excellent stuff on the medieval period. One of his videos is on fire in the middle ages, and how they started it, or, more properly, how they didn't start fires... Give it a...

It works both ways: a game with little support garners fewer players; a less popular game is going to lead to less support from a publisher with other irons in the fire. My guess here, is that Privateer simply discovered there was more money to be made, for them, in a miniatures game than a RPG.

I am not sure how I am supposed to be damaging myself in this conversation, or why you would be interested in such a thing. If you are not interested in a civil discussion, and only want an argument or debate, then I am really not interested. I would be actually interested in any actual...

I chose that date because the math/comparison of a 1 bow to 1 sheaf is easy to do. :) If you had read the actual book reference I sourced in the very first post, you would have seen that the cost ratio of bow to arrow was fairly consistent over the years. But, very well - let's look at 1351 -...

Because everyone knows that military brass are in cahoots with military contractors. :D Though, in truth, considering that medieval kings often had to borrow heavily to finance their wars, I suspect that they would have been very interested in maximum effectiveness for minimum expenditure.

This seems interesting and pertinent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWCN7HId-b8

Traditionally the english sheaf of arrows was 24. Which makes it, using today's standards, approximately $10 an arrow. That was not for the military market; that was, I believe, the standard rate that the average Englishman in 1518 would have paid for his arrow. Assuming a longbow cost of 75 gp...

Do you have documentation that the arrows were cheap? I would be interested in seeing it, as the documentation I have found, some of which I linked to, shows just the opposite. Again, in 1518 the documented market price for an english longbow was 3s. 4d., and price for a sheaf of arrows and...

Ah - got you. But how are you expecting that to affect the price of the arrows? I am not sure that it does, Seeing as how the price of arrows relative to bows appears, from all I can tell, to be about identical today as to what it was in yesteryear?.

That 6 pack is a very good buy (notice though that its half-off; and a review from a week ago makes it clear that it was just recently discounted.) But, and you may already know this, when you buy those arrows they either come with a field tip, or else you have to purchase the tips separate (I...

The link is indeed working now. Thanks.

Saw this on Facebook yesterday: Playground Adventures Seemed apropos to the original post.

You are neglecting the fact that the fletcher would not have had to necessarily dry his own bow-staves, but much of the work would have been done by the time it got to him. But still, we don't have to speculate on the prices. We have documentation from the middle-ages that the cost of one or...

Well, even the Lord's had to buy them from somewhere and pay some price. King Henry V, for a single order of 12,000 arrows, around 1413, paid 37 pounds, 10 shillings, which, conservatively, would be around $25,000. Ordering at bulk, for his military, he was paying more than $2 an arrow. That...

You need to game with a better set of archers. :)

Something I was pondering today, after buying a couple of arrows preparatory to hunting some food... RPG arrows tend to be cheap. A Pathfinder longbow for instance cost 75 gp and 20 arrows costs 1 gp. In real life, arrows are actually quite expensive. A single cheap hunting arrow with a broad...

Well, at this point the 4E license, by dint of actually existing, is far superior. :hmm: