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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyshan" data-source="post: 8371606" data-attributes="member: 7031798">As going by carats, each carat of a diamond weighs 0.000440925 lbs. (0.20000021574225 grams)And if we were to say that a diamond could weigh 10 lbs, then that would make it a 22679.6 carat diamond. (4535.92 grams)The current largest diamond in the real world is the Cullinan Diamond which is 3,106.75 carats or 1.3698422661 pounds (621.35000000647 grams)The Cullinan Diamond is worth $400 million dollars.To humor the idea, let us briefly consider D&D people weighing a fist-sized diamond in its weight in gold.The hand of an average adult human weighs approximately 1.03 lbs, rounded down to 1 lb.Gold in turn has a weight of 1lb per 50gp.That in turn would mean the diamond is 2267.96 carats and weighs 1 lb. (453.592 grams).I think we can all agree that such a comparison means that the average person is getting scammed by 4550 gold pieces when they try to resurrect their dead friend.If we wanted to stick to the idea gold and its weight and that somehow equating to 5000gp diamond, you would need to bring over 100 lbs worth in gold. (45359.2 grams)For fun, I also have this old Dragon Magazine article (#8), since we want to chat about how 5e caputres that OSR feel.Its stated that a 1 carat diamond is worth 200g on average. So simply put a 5000gp diamond is a 25 carat diamond.However, a 25 carat diamond only weighs 0.0110231 lbs or 5 grams.Nowhere near what a fist-sized diamond would be in size.We already calculated it would be 2267.96 carats to be 1 lb so its about the same weight as a human hand.Which 2267.96 carats aka 1lb worth in diamond (1 carat per 200gp) is worth 453,592 gold pieces.If we wanted to use the Cullian Diamond instead which is even more approximate to a fist-sized diamond that would be 3,106.75 carats which is 621,350 gold pieces.So a fist-sized diamond is worth either 50gp (weight value) or its worth 453,592gp (market value).</blockquote>

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