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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6154572" data-attributes="member: 19675">The economics of a campaign world are left to the DM to flesh out.  Most will just use the prices in the book, and handwave any variances.  Some- such as myself- will use varinaces from the book, and model those variances on economics.  Economics tells us that all the little real world costs of manufacture, storage, salesmanship and theft plus the partially irrationality of demand combine to set a price.Which also means that NO price in the game tells us how easy it is to find someone to produce any item or anything about availability.  The DMG sets a price for 50' of silken rope, but that price has no bearing on how hard or easy it actually is to find silken rope in a given area in a given campaign.  War dogs have a price, but they may be utterly unavailable in some regions.  A silver holy symbol has a price, but the symbol of YOUR god could be outlawed.So I stand by my statement.You clearly missed my point- things in the campaign cost what the DM says they cost.  Usually, that means what is in the DMG.  But not always.If the DM has presented the PCs a store in which a mundane suit of armor that is normally priced 1500gp is instead priced the same as a magical weapon, there is a campaign specific reason.  The DM is telling you something about that suit of armor, the local economy, the laws of the region or something else.  Its up to you to decide whether to find out why it costs more,</blockquote>

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