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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philotomy Jurament" data-source="post: 4495201" data-attributes="member: 20854">There are in my Yggsburgh.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I wasn't trying to defend the price lists.  Personally, I think that swords are over-priced in both LA and Yggsburgh.  However, I chalk it up to different visions.  Yggsburgh (and also the fantasy society described in Gary's Living Fantasy) has a renaissance + magic "wiz-o-phone" feel, and I tend to prefer a more Leiber/Howard swords-n-sorcery type of feel.  I think Yggsburgh assumes swords are noble weapons, not a common weapon at all.Nevertheless, within the scope of Gary's vision and the price structure he uses, I wanted to point out that there's plenty of room for lower priced swords.  Thus, the example of the "average" sword price from LA.  Even if an average sword doesn't appear on the published Yggsburgh price-lists, it still fits the economic scale and structure Gary was using, so it shouldn't be a big deal or disrupting to insert it.I think that swords in CZ have a much larger range of quality (and probably adornment) than other weapons like maces and spears and such.  I think a mace from Elite Arms & Armor is a good quality mace, but not anything special.  A sword from Elite Arms & Armor, on the other hand, is a noble weapon, far above the "average" sword you might find in the hands of a brigand or pirate.</blockquote>

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