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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belgarath" data-source="post: 4023021" data-attributes="member: 3418">I dont know. Maybe it is the entire terminology that is getting to me. I have always much rather preferred the way gurps handled it for money. With that system, a poor farmhand still has the "money" to eat a meal a day and it all works out. He can even scrape up a little extra here and there for other stuff. Remember, that it might not be actual coins that he gets like in the modern world. It might be that those meals are part of his work, and the landowner feeds him. I can deal with that.My problems is that quite frankly, the mathematics of it all doesnt work out at all with the terminology. The entire thing equals up to two completely different economies at the same time, which frankly annoys me. I can see an adventurer living well and eating things that most people wont be able to afford, but dont call it a "common" meal then. A meal should be a meal should be a meal. According to D&D, even trail rations - a simple fare that is just enough to live off of - is worth 5 times what a laborer can afford. Again, this makes no sense at all to me</blockquote>