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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1142567" data-attributes="member: 2292">I believe that's what's known as being "a diversion."  If you don't want people to notice your agents sneaking into the territory, you put something bodly obvious out the front with the illusion of it being sneaky <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=":)" />And, in the long run, 10 gp isn't as much as it sounds in DnD economics.  On average, a 1st level commoner making his living as a baker will earn about 6 or seven gold a month (assuming a craft skill with 4 ranks and an average weekly roll of 10).  Even assuming that this is a particularly poor area, so the baker is obviously not greatly skilled, Thamos is probably doing okay for himself.  3-4 gp a week, which puts him a little above his neighbours.  On a good week, when the gods roll a natural twenty, he can probably push the 10 gp mark all on his own.It's the untrained laborers that have it tough in DnD economics, earning a silver a day (which, incidently, is what the bulk of Petrev's half-orc population does).  The professionals and crafty types are hardly adventurers, but they get by okay.Short version:  10gp is generous, it's flashy, and its cuts through quite a bit of tedious negotiation and haggling, but it's not going to make Thamos a wealthy man.  In all likelihood, it'll be set aside for his daughters dowry or spent on a better quality of baking tools.</blockquote>

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