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<blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 994685" data-attributes="member: 1297">Re: Re: Re: D&amp;D price listswell, I wouldn't say deserve, but that fabulous wealth is the up shot of adventuring, or otherwise people wouldn't do it.This isn't what I'm saying at all. To me it always seems that things are insanely cheap. Other people go on and on about how 1sp per day for an unskilled worker means they couldn't eat or have a place to live because pub meals and a room in an inn cost more than an sp per day. The prices don't not make sense to me.Not there fore, but more or less.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I won't go into this because it wasn't what I was saying...I think the point is that most farmers don't buy anything. This is a feudal system, not a capitalist one. The means of exchange for most people is barter, and they would not be buying chickens but farming them, not buying fire wood but gathering it etc. Very few people in this society would be going out and buying anything. advenuturers, as travellers in an age where travel is unheard of except for the fabulously wealthy are exceptions to the rule, almost proto capitalists relying on abstract means of exchange rather than hard work and barter.Does that make any more sense? The point is that I've never seen anything to suggest that the prices lists are any wrong, either too much or too little.No but they a) bread in large numbers in order to keep up with child mortality and b) didn't generally buy the fuel for heating or the food for the home.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olive, post: 994685, member: 1297"] [b]Re: Re: Re: D&D price lists[/b] well, I wouldn't say deserve, but that fabulous wealth is the up shot of adventuring, or otherwise people wouldn't do it. [B][/B] This isn't what I'm saying at all. To me it always seems that things are insanely cheap. Other people go on and on about how 1sp per day for an unskilled worker means they couldn't eat or have a place to live because pub meals and a room in an inn cost more than an sp per day. The prices don't not make sense to me. [B][/B] Not there fore, but more or less. [B][/B] :D [B][/B] I won't go into this because it wasn't what I was saying... [B][/B] I think the point is that most farmers don't buy anything. This is a feudal system, not a capitalist one. The means of exchange for most people is barter, and they would not be buying chickens but farming them, not buying fire wood but gathering it etc. Very few people in this society would be going out and buying anything. advenuturers, as travellers in an age where travel is unheard of except for the fabulously wealthy are exceptions to the rule, almost proto capitalists relying on abstract means of exchange rather than hard work and barter. Does that make any more sense? The point is that I've never seen anything to suggest that the prices lists are any wrong, either too much or too little. No but they a) bread in large numbers in order to keep up with child mortality and b) didn't generally buy the fuel for heating or the food for the home. [/QUOTE]

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