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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2549940" data-attributes="member: 158">While all these are a good starting point, I'd modify it as follows:A typical medieval fantasy-style road is going to be much shoddier quality than a modern road. Even if said road is paved with cobblestones or brick, it will be cheaper simply because we build roads to last MUCH harsher environments than what a med-fantasy-style culture would have.Inflation is also a factor. It would cost a fraction today to build the original Eisenhower Interstate system as it was when first constructed. Similarly, labor is cheaper the closer to a med-fantasy culture you go.If a road cost 50,000 gold to build, there would be no roads <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> except for the ones in the capital perhaps and even then much less of them. In med-fantasy, a typical "road" means cutting a smooth furrow and not letting grass grow on it at worst, and cobblestones at best.EDIT: <a href="http://www.unc.edu/courses/rometech/public/content/transport/Adam_Pawluk/Contruction_and_Makeup_of_.htm#Construction" target="_blank">a web site on Roman roads</a>According to this, it was leveled (built in locations that drainage was accounted for), then paved with rock, then layered with sand, then topped off with pebbles or gravel, or sand if nothing else was handy.</blockquote>

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