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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5695945" data-attributes="member: 463">Where's that?  You may well be right, 3e in particular had some hugely excessive building prices AIR (a stone tower costing the same as a Daern's Instant Fortress) but I've always found it much easier to ignore or tone down the occasional outbursts of excessive pricing (1 million gp for a 3e fortress vs ca 50,000gp in 1e) than to change the whole economy so labourers earn gps every day.I first had to deal with this issue in using (AIR) Paul Vernon's "Designing A Quasi-Medieval Society" White Dwarf articles. Vernon pointed out that ale in 1e AD&D cost 5cp/pint, whereas labourers were paid 1 sp/day.  This, he pointed out, was silly, and therefore proposed an 'ale standard' where all prices were increased x5.  The problem was that many of Gygax's PHB prices (ale) had been arbitrarily inflated, while others had not (swords, notably - and chickens seem cheap at 12cp even on a 1sp/day standard).  I toyed with the ale standard, and it works well for an 'Alaska Gold Rush' milieu to match the inflated prices, but for a more settled milieu I found it worked much better to keep the sp/day standard and reduce inflated prices in line; often with fairly minor tweaks - 5cp gets you a gallon of ale, say; a flagon for 1cp.</blockquote>