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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nergal Pendragon" data-source="post: 6495447" data-attributes="member: 6777649">No one today can manage a modest living using a pure barter economy, and yet according to the Player's Handbook they manage it for the typical DnD world.It creates a problem that a simple banquet costs $1,000 per person under that economy. I can think of no banquet I have ever been to that cost that much per plate.Also, you are forgetting that most tend to live on 1 silver a day, or about $10 under your calculation (Source: Player's Handbook, page 143). Using the figures provided by Celebrim on the previous page, that means the typical person lives on only $3,100 a year.And then we dig up the actual amount that commoners live on and notice that commoners manage to live pretty well on that silver a day, given that copper is common for people who are lower in class than them; it is the laborers and beggars who deal in copper pieces. Which means that the people who actually do make a modest living in the typical DnD setting do so, using your figures, for less than one tenth of the amount of money that is typically required for Americans to make a modest living.So, pretty much, the only way it works when basing it on the American dollar and American lifestyle is if a copper piece is equal to $10; otherwise, we have these people pulling off the impossible. And even then, it's still technically not enough money.I suggested usage-based simply because, at the end of the day, usage-based is ultimately the easiest and provides the lesser headache. Especially since commoners manage to not have 9/10ths of the expenses modern Americans have.</blockquote>

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