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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6154504" data-attributes="member: 19675">That's not what economics tells us.&nbsp; Economically speaking, 2Kgp items a roughly interchangeable.If a regular suit of plate costs 1500gp, and you're looking at a 2Kgp mundane suit of plate in a store selling a magical sword for 2Kgp, there is something special &amp; rare enough about that suit to warrant the extra 500gp price.&nbsp; Perhaps it was once worn by a noble, and it has some bells &amp; whistles on it (gold-plated epaulets or some such).&nbsp; Perhaps it is the best suit of armor ever made by the craftsman who made it, and he spent extra gold getting &quot;special&quot; materials, like &quot;the finest Krgathian ores purified over a fire of the purest Hrothian anthracite and blessed by the Priest of Ged&quot;...all of which may be hard to come by in that village but may or may not be special as far as the game is concerned.It may not have the same costs in the sense of game resources, but in terms of the campaign world, the pricey armor and the magic sword are economically interchangeable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6154504, member: 19675"] That's not what economics tells us. Economically speaking, 2Kgp items a roughly interchangeable. If a regular suit of plate costs 1500gp, and you're looking at a 2Kgp mundane suit of plate in a store selling a magical sword for 2Kgp, there is something special & rare enough about that suit to warrant the extra 500gp price. Perhaps it was once worn by a noble, and it has some bells & whistles on it (gold-plated epaulets or some such). Perhaps it is the best suit of armor ever made by the craftsman who made it, and he spent extra gold getting "special" materials, like "the finest Krgathian ores purified over a fire of the purest Hrothian anthracite and blessed by the Priest of Ged"...all of which may be hard to come by in that village but may or may not be special as far as the game is concerned. It may not have the same costs in the sense of game resources, but in terms of the campaign world, the pricey armor and the magic sword are economically interchangeable. [/QUOTE]

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