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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Col_Pladoh" data-source="post: 394240" data-attributes="member: 796">Okay, let's accept the "absolute" as a fact. We now turn to a fantasy world where there are active deities and their priests at work to make sure that crops don't fail, ripes, and so forth. The agriculturial base for a developed fantasy world state would be quite far beyond even a typical 18th century one.Fertilization of crops, something that can certainly be assumed in a fantasy world, was known in the East, and even many primitive agriculturalists used irrigation and fertilization techniques.So, that considered, is there really anything too far-fetched in assuming that food costs in a fantasy world, one where inspections, packaging and middle-men are not adding to the cost of goods, is similar to our own? I think not.Of course, the overall economic setting I propose is one that is far more affluent that the "miserable peasant" one often used. with a greater amount of wealth assumed in the society, there is  greater opportunity for adventure possibilities, I submit.The lowest socio-economic class is still present and struggling, beneath it the underclass and the criminal underclass, above it the middle tier of the lower class just about able to make ends meet. the top of this strata having some amenities.Cheerio,Gary</blockquote>