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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 8372283" data-attributes="member: 23">Exactly?Now I don't want to poo-poo your post, but your wording triggered my number crunching addiction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> An &quot;ordinary&quot; diamond, based on the DMG, is worth 5000 gp.&nbsp; Now we know there are smaller, cheaper diamond, so let's say it's a &quot;nice&quot; diamond, but not some kind of ultra rare flawless pink diamond eitherI'm not a gemologist, but a quick web search says that a 1 carat diamond is priced in the 1 300 to 16 000$ (a number of ranges exist, they are all in the same rough spot).&nbsp;&nbsp; So let's pick... 5000 dollars, for ease of comparison.Now let's say you have that nice 5000 dollars diamond in the real world, vs having that diamond in D&amp;D, and that in both cases, you cash out and use the money to sustain yourself for a year.5000$ a year is NOT going to carry you far, and is far lower than poverty levels in North-America.In D&amp;D, you could like like an aristocrat on 5000 gp a year.&nbsp; Heck, if you decide to live modestly (but not poorly), that gem will keep you going for well over 10 years!So... it would appear that diamonds are far more valuable in D&amp;D than they are in the real world. I'll note that the biggest challenge in this type of comparison is picking the real world equivalent of a &quot;standard&quot; D&amp;D diamond.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 8372283, member: 23"] Exactly? Now I don't want to poo-poo your post, but your wording triggered my number crunching addiction :) An "ordinary" diamond, based on the DMG, is worth 5000 gp. Now we know there are smaller, cheaper diamond, so let's say it's a "nice" diamond, but not some kind of ultra rare flawless pink diamond either I'm not a gemologist, but a quick web search says that a 1 carat diamond is priced in the 1 300 to 16 000$ (a number of ranges exist, they are all in the same rough spot). So let's pick... 5000 dollars, for ease of comparison. Now let's say you have that nice 5000 dollars diamond in the real world, vs having that diamond in D&D, and that in both cases, you cash out and use the money to sustain yourself for a year. 5000$ a year is NOT going to carry you far, and is far lower than poverty levels in North-America. In D&D, you could like like an [I]aristocrat[/I] on 5000 gp a year. Heck, if you decide to live modestly (but not poorly), that gem will keep you going for well over 10 years! So... it would appear that diamonds are far more valuable in D&D than they are in the real world. I'll note that the biggest challenge in this type of comparison is picking the real world equivalent of a "standard" D&D diamond. [/QUOTE]

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