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<blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6737829" data-attributes="member: 221"><p>Traditionally the english sheaf of arrows was 24. Which makes it, using today's standards, approximately $10 an arrow. That was not for the military market; that was, I believe, the standard rate that the average Englishman in 1518 would have paid for his arrow. Assuming a longbow cost of 75 gp, it also translates into, in RPG terms, 5 gp per arrow, roughly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am not sure what you are basing your theory that the average hunter paid less for his arrows than the average soldier in England, or that the military arrows would have been more expensively produced. I suspect it was actually the opposite. The hunting arrow needs to kill a deer preferably with a single shot. The military arrows would have been made to be fired in mass volleys. The hunting arrow would therefore, marketwise, want to be the better arrow.</p><p></p><p>A hundred years before 1518, King Henry V was buying arrows by the hundreds of thousands and paying roughly $2+ an arrow, quite a markdown from the $10 an arrow price the average man was paying a hundred years later. </p><p></p><p>All that being said, I'm not sure what you are trying to persuade me of. If anything, you are merely agreeing with the premise that RPG arrows purchased by adventurers for the purpose of killing nasty things often wearing armor, are ridiculously cheap by any real world standards.</p><p></p><p>My real question though, going back to the original post, is how would realistically priced arrows affect the game?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wicht, post: 6737829, member: 221"] Traditionally the english sheaf of arrows was 24. Which makes it, using today's standards, approximately $10 an arrow. That was not for the military market; that was, I believe, the standard rate that the average Englishman in 1518 would have paid for his arrow. Assuming a longbow cost of 75 gp, it also translates into, in RPG terms, 5 gp per arrow, roughly. I am not sure what you are basing your theory that the average hunter paid less for his arrows than the average soldier in England, or that the military arrows would have been more expensively produced. I suspect it was actually the opposite. The hunting arrow needs to kill a deer preferably with a single shot. The military arrows would have been made to be fired in mass volleys. The hunting arrow would therefore, marketwise, want to be the better arrow. A hundred years before 1518, King Henry V was buying arrows by the hundreds of thousands and paying roughly $2+ an arrow, quite a markdown from the $10 an arrow price the average man was paying a hundred years later. All that being said, I'm not sure what you are trying to persuade me of. If anything, you are merely agreeing with the premise that RPG arrows purchased by adventurers for the purpose of killing nasty things often wearing armor, are ridiculously cheap by any real world standards. My real question though, going back to the original post, is how would realistically priced arrows affect the game? [/QUOTE]
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