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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9240287" data-attributes="member: 42856">The Forgotten Realms wiki mentions that the gross margin of crossing the Araunoch in caravan is such that 100 gp of goods from one side can get 500 gp on the other side. If we assume (from the same spice article) that the most expensive spices fetch 40 gp per pound (at the destination), a single carrier of a Reduced sack can carry 48,000 gp worth of spice at destination (for an investment of 9,600).Even with a more modest 100% gross margin (spices from Persia to Western Europe in the real-life middle ages), the wizard will make a healthy buck sending his fighter friends to carry the goods (what other uses might fighting men with pointy sticks have for our heroic and entrepreneurial wizard?)Note by Ao:  if you try to make sense of Faerun's economy, it will cause yet an another Sundering!</blockquote>