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<blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 993617" data-attributes="member: 3568">Re: Re: D&amp;D price listsOlive, I'm going to assume I've misunderstood you, and ask for clarification.&nbsp; Because your argument here seems to be:1. The PCs, as persons with highly specialized skills, deserve to be fabulously wealthy.2. The price lists are set up to reflect what the PCs can afford.3. Therefore the price lists make sense.Since I'd find that argument completely absurd, I prefer to believe for now that it isn't what you meant.&nbsp; The PCs represent a small fraction of one percent of the total population of the campaign world -- the entire economy cannot be based on them.&nbsp; Millions of non-adventuring NPCs have to be able to buy things as well.&nbsp; Nor is there any obvious justification for routinely charging a PC ten to twenty times what you'd charge an NPC farmer for the same item, just because the PC has more money.&nbsp; If you do that, then the PC doesn't have any more money -- you've brought his buying power down to the level of the farmer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Damon Griffin, post: 993617, member: 3568"] [b]Re: Re: D&D price lists[/b] Olive, I'm going to assume I've misunderstood you, and ask for clarification. Because your argument here seems to be: 1. The PCs, as persons with highly specialized skills, deserve to be fabulously wealthy. 2. The price lists are set up to reflect what the PCs can afford. 3. Therefore the price lists make sense. Since I'd find that argument completely absurd, I prefer to believe for now that it isn't what you meant. The PCs represent a small fraction of one percent of the total population of the campaign world -- the entire economy cannot be based on them. Millions of non-adventuring NPCs have to be able to buy things as well. Nor is there any obvious justification for routinely charging a PC ten to twenty times what you'd charge an NPC farmer for the same item, just because the PC has more money. If you do that, then the PC doesn't have any more money -- you've brought his buying power down to the level of the farmer. [/QUOTE]

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