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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4282193" data-attributes="member: 10177">The 40 GP is just a guideline where 40 GP items and below may be readily available. Plus like you posted in your prior post to this, what an adventurer would consider junk, is necessary for their livlihood to a farmer. So they may have a 150 GP wagon, but are they going to sell it? Probably not, especially if they need it to haul their harvest to the buyers in a week. They may have a full suit of serviceable chainmail, but are they going to sell it rather than keep it for emergencies?So this is an area that was still left pretty wide open for a DM to make some decisions beyond what the rules tell you.Heck, I even bought Magical Medievel Society: Western Europe, Silk Road, and Gary Gygax World Builder books. They help me solidify a lot of ideas, helped me to build worlds, nations, cities, and even farms, and even work out a good bit of the economic questions, but even they didn't take care of everything, or help me create a completely realistic economic system in a world of magic where lead CAN be turned into gold.Going with what makes sense will get you the closest. The biggest thing all those books did, other than give me a methodical structure with which to consider and design everything, was to give me a much better idea of what "sensible" would be.Now to go back to your "looting 41,000 gold from a thorpe" scenario.Why wouldn't they loot all of the 41,000 GP? It depends. If they have plenty of time, plenty of men, and plenty of wagons, yes, they could loot the whole 41,000 GP. Usually, they are worried about patrols of well armed and armored men coming along. Nor do they usually stick to the roads, so carrying stuff by wagon is out. Plus wagons are much slower than just riding a horse, so if pursuit is a concern wagons are still out.So unless these thorpes are out in undefended, unpatrolled areas, where they would have plenty of time to gather up the 41,000 GP worth of loot, and take it by the wagon load, they are only going to "snatch and grap". Which means they go for the easiest to carry highest value items they can find.So your scenario sounds like they are on borderlands, where there are no patrols, there is no law other than that of your sword. So yes, there would be people looting these thorpes and building up a sizeable fortune doing it.</blockquote>

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