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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 251934" data-attributes="member: 4937">"Thats assuming the dnd world has a standard of living like the USA. I've been to india and the yearly average in us is around 500$. I would assume the standard of living in a DnD world is somthing more like india than america.In india me and my wife lived and ate better than the natives for 12-13$ a day."I'd certainly hope so, since you had at least ten times the buying power of the average native.I'm aware of the whole standard of living aspect, and I'd agree: the standard of living in the average D&D world is much more like India than the US.  I've lived in Jamaica, where the average income in US dollars is something like $2500.  But that doesn't change my point.  I'm only trying to put in perspective what sort of buying power 1 g.p. should have.  You yourself make it clear that if the standard of living is lower, then for many basics, the buying power of individual dollars is much higher.  Just because the wages in India translate to $400 dollars US, doesn't mean that a peasant in India has the same standard of living as a person in the US who consumes $400 dollars worth of products (and only $400 dollars) over the course of the year.  Four hundred dollars is at least sufficient for subsistance in India (maybe even above that), but not sufficient in the high priced US.  For instance, you can buy a hand tailored suit of clothing or hand crafted knife in India for a fraction of the cost (in absolute dollars) that you would pay for the same suit or knife in the US.  On the other hand, a high standard item (like the latest computer or gasoline) probably costs more in India (in absolute dollars) than it does in the US.The same synergy would be true of +1 magic swords from a D&D metropolis and ripe figs from a D&D countryside.Whatever standard you use that you can relate to, the s.p. is worth one days wages for an unskilled laborer and buys what those one days wages buy.PS: Tonguez, I like your ideas and will probably steal them at some point.</blockquote>

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