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<blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4153914" data-attributes="member: 5036">Suddenly I have the image of a Lawful Evil tyrant painstakingly throttling the import of diamonds into his kingdom so that the value of one fleck of diamond dust is worth 5,000 gp, just so the Royal Diamond Vault can be used to resurrect him a million times.Hmm...is resurrection magic influenced by the local economy, or by the act of purchasing? If the former (i.e., if I take diamonds I bought for 50 gp to a place where diamonds are worth 100 times as much, does the spell work?), it suggests that economics is a real, tangible force in the D&amp;D world akin to gravity or the strong nuclear force and opens up a potentially fascinating field of arcane study. (protection from inflation, 10' radius, anyone?) If the latter, it suggests that the gods are monitoring your offering purchase and, as Greek myth proves (and as is borne out by D&amp;D deities having stat blocks), it should be possible for a twinked-out Bluff-focused rogue to pull a fast one and have the king raised for the offering of three pebbles and a bit of string.<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" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kordeth, post: 4153914, member: 5036"] Suddenly I have the image of a Lawful Evil tyrant painstakingly throttling the import of diamonds into his kingdom so that the value of one fleck of diamond dust is worth 5,000 gp, just so the Royal Diamond Vault can be used to resurrect him a million times. Hmm...is resurrection magic influenced by the local economy, or by the act of purchasing? If the former (i.e., if I take diamonds I bought for 50 gp to a place where diamonds are worth 100 times as much, does the spell work?), it suggests that economics is a real, tangible force in the D&D world akin to gravity or the strong nuclear force and opens up a potentially fascinating field of arcane study. ([i]protection from inflation, 10' radius[/i], anyone?) If the latter, it suggests that the gods are monitoring your offering purchase and, as Greek myth proves (and as is borne out by D&D deities having stat blocks), it should be possible for a twinked-out Bluff-focused rogue to pull a fast one and have the king raised for the offering of three pebbles and a bit of string. :D [/QUOTE]

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