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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4565193" data-attributes="member: 49613">If 'realism' is desired, then the answer is that it depends on the item in question and the market.A set of used Orcish leather armor (that is, used by orcs not made of orcs!) is probably only worth the value of the components minus the labor to salvage them... the armor as armor is the wrong size for non-orcs, is full of gory holes where the orc has been stabbed multiple times (by heroes and other orcs), is ridden with lice and flees, stinks and is crusted with filth. Maybe I'll give you 1 copper piece for that POS, just 'cause I'm glad you shanked its owner.An Orcish scimitar is not as bad, but still not very valuable. The workmanship is crude, the balance is off (for a man), the blade is dull because it depends as much on the orc's thews as it does the blade itself to do the cutting, the blade is nicked and rusty and prone to breakage, and the whole thing stinks and is crusted with orc shmutz. I'll go a silver piece for it... maybe I can sell it to some "itinerant man of arms" on a "no questions asked" basis. It may actually be a lethal weapon, if you're strong enough to counteract its deficiencies.An Elvish longsword, on the other hand? If you promise not to tell me where you got it, I'll give you just under market price. That's a real beauty, and I know just who would pay top sovereign for it.</blockquote>