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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8372257" data-attributes="member: 23751">A fist sized diamond would be closer to the half million gold piece mark.What I find fun is that value is really supply and demand, not inherent.  That means that if you buy a diamond worth 500 gold for raise dead and then travel to a place where diamond mines are plentiful, you might find that the diamond is now worth only 250 gold and now you won't be able to bring back your comrade.  You could also try to talk the DM into allowing you to use a diamond chip that your PC values at 10,000 gold, because he REALLY likes diamond chips.Or we can just leave out economics entirely and arbitrarily assign diamonds value by size, so that no matter where you are, it has an inherent value that is usable for spells.  200 gold or 250 gold a carat seems reasonable to me.</blockquote>