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<blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 996316" data-attributes="member: 5328">I've looked into this a little. And there are definite discrepancies between different places and times. For example, pigs cost 2.5 times as much at London as in the depths of Gloucestershire. The largest divergence in relative prices I have come across is that the cost of iron weapons and armour as a ratio of the price of livestock (particularly warhorses) varies by a factor of four from&nbsp; twelfth-century Spain to Fifteenth-century Milan. Basically, horses doubled in price, and weapons and armour halved in price, as the high and late Mediaeval periods progressed. Not to mention that the value of silver fell by about a factor of three.So the best you could do setting up a 'typical Mediaeval price list' would to be pick some sort of middle point and accept that there would be variations of about 40% either way depending on location and period (disregarding price inflation).That is dwarfed by the discrepancies in the PHB tables. The relative price of mail and plate armour is off by a factor of fifteen.Regards,Agback</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Agback, post: 996316, member: 5328"] I've looked into this a little. And there are definite discrepancies between different places and times. For example, pigs cost 2.5 times as much at London as in the depths of Gloucestershire. The largest divergence in relative prices I have come across is that the cost of iron weapons and armour as a ratio of the price of livestock (particularly warhorses) varies by a factor of four from twelfth-century Spain to Fifteenth-century Milan. Basically, horses doubled in price, and weapons and armour halved in price, as the high and late Mediaeval periods progressed. Not to mention that the value of silver fell by about a factor of three. So the best you could do setting up a 'typical Mediaeval price list' would to be pick some sort of middle point and accept that there would be variations of about 40% either way depending on location and period (disregarding price inflation). That is [i]dwarfed[/i] by the discrepancies in the PHB tables. The relative price of mail and plate armour is off by a factor of [i]fifteen[/i]. Regards, Agback [/QUOTE]

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