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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5695686" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think you've described a somewhat adequate silver peice based economy.Unfortunately, adventurers are on a default gold peice based economy.  If you want to retain a silver peice based economy, you'll need to reprice everything and adjust treasure accordingly. If you don't, some wierd things start happening to the economy of the game world.  While food and other basic necessities tend to be priced on a silver peice based economy, tools, buildings, and other durable goods tend to be priced on the gold peice based economy.  The first upshot of this is that mechanically, peasants can't afford the hovels, huts, and cottages that they live in nor the tools that they need to perform their labor.  The second upshot of this is that PC's can leverage this to buy raw materials under a silver peice economy, and then quickly transform them into finished goods that are costed according to the gamist adventure balancing gold peice standard at enormous profits.Another wierd result of having a labor market priced in silver peices while adventures buy and sell in gold peices, is that PC's will find that they can amazingly leverage the labor market forcing you to reprice the market whether you want it or not.  It becomes relatively easy to go Belloch at mid to high level, and approach problems with a sledge hammer of overwhelming labor - dig everything up, get everyone to work for you, hire all the mercenaries you can find.   If 100 longbowmen can be treated like a low cost magic item, it changes the game.Plus, the mismatched economy just won't work in detail.  Finished goods priced in g.p. can't be explained from labor costs and raw materials priced in silver peices, and you'll end up with odd descrepencies depending on where you look to for pricing out whatever the players have decided to do that isn't basic dungeon crawling.The easiest fix for this is to ignore the realistic silver peice economy and multiple all your incomes, subsistance costs, and anything else with assumptions rooted in the wage = 1 s.p. assumption by a factor of 10 to convert it to the standard gold peice economy.   Or alternately you can adjust all of the prices in the gamist gold peice economy down by a factor of 10.  Either way, you end up encouraging economic parity between PC's and NPC's of equivalent social standing.</blockquote>

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