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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9376466" data-attributes="member: 7044459">Yeah.. I just try and make it make kind of sense. I've tried to scale my economies down a little so I treat 1cp as roughly equivalent to 1usd. Generally speaking you can't buy much for less than a buck. 1sp will get you a meal, 1gp will get you a room for the night. The biggest problem I've run into was arms and armor. These are things that craftsmen have devoted hours into making. I have no idea how efficiently a blacksmith works. Could a smith make a sword in a day? Three days? Say with an apprentice the smith makes three swords a week. How much would he have to sell them at to make ends meet? The PHB says a long sword costs 15gp.. So with my conversion that's $1500? If he's making $4500/week that's a pretty great living. But is he selling three swords a week? Probably not.. What does the village of Fallkirk need a dozen swords a month for? In the first year all the villagers of fighting age are equipped.. and likely have a back-up sword too! He probably makes half a dozen swords a year and spends most of his time making nails and horse shoes and door hinges right?When the ranger wants to buy a suit of studded leather armor who does he go see? The leatherworker or the smith? The PHB says that costs 45gp, and a regular suit of leather armor is only 10gp. I guess I buy that. The smith would have to craft the dozens of metal plates and rivets and then spend the time to actually assemble it. That 10gp is also retail cost. Perhaps the smith has a deal with the leatherworker and can source the armor for a lower cost. So if the ranger opts to have his leather armor studded, would it just be 35gp to do the work? Maybe a week's labor? I don't know.. I guess I get why they didn't devote a lot of time into this work. It would take a lot of effort and thought for something that some groups probably don't mess with at all.</blockquote>

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