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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1542667" data-attributes="member: 18377">Actually, not all the figures are from the same text. You have to rabbit around a bit looking for records of prices.I actually have some figures on the difference in prices for livestock between breeding areas (Leicestershire) and London. I think the pattern is interesting (the difference is smallest for cattle, rather larger for sheep, higher again for pigs, and highest for poultry). But I really didn't think that players wanted that sort of detail in their D&D game.As for the fact that a live chicken is worth more than its weight in meat, I will point out two things. First, that the chicken I found a price for was noted as being 'a good layer'. Second, that the relative costs of different meats tends to vary somewhat according to circumstances. When beef and mutton are raised on open ranges they are cheap meats and poultry is a luxury food. If poultry were selling as a 40% premium over mutton, or if a cockerel or 'old boiler' were cheaper than a 'good layer' the prices I quoted would make perfect sense.Anyway, you are correct in noting that it would not be good sense to slaughter a good egg-laying hen worth 1.6 sp to sell her meat for 1.2 sp. Will you acknowledge that on the other hand there is something whacky about a market in which you can buy a hen for 2 cp, slaughter her, and sell the meat for 18 sp? That's 17.8 sp profit for an operation that I assure you can be done with little skill and in few minutes.</blockquote>

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