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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 5526382" data-attributes="member: 2597">Okay, permanent circle of teleport 324,000 gp (Circle of Teleport 18th level caster x 9th level spell x 2,000 gp for permanent enchantment).  Can carry up to 1 ton (115 lbs. per person up to level in people) up to 2,000 miles.  You will need 7 of these to reach all the way around the world (if it is Earth Sized), so total cost:  2,268,000 gp You need 18 people to transport the items for two years:  13,104 gpTotal cost 2,281,230 gp One sailing ship 10,000 gp (transports about 150 tons of equipment)Crew of 51:  7 gp per week for 2 years--36,400 gpCommon 3 sp meal for 2 years:  32,850 gpInsurance Premiums (based on $15,000 per month protection against Somali Pirates):  12,162 gpGrand Total:  91,412 gpSo for the the cost of one Teleportation Circle you could finance 25 voyages across the sea.  Granted at 1 ton a day every day you could transport 730 tons vs. 150 tons in that amount of time.  So you would have a base increase in cost of exotic goods of about five times as much, just to finance the transportation of using a Teleportation Circle.Now if you just wanted to enchant an item with just Greater Teleport you could, it would cost 45,000 gp at minimum caster level, but you would still need seven of them so it would cost 315,000 gp, you could get away with 9 workers for two years, which would be 6,552 gp, so the cost would be 321,552 gp which is only about the cost of 4 voyages, you would be able to transport about 0.5 tons per day.  So the markup would be about twice as much.And none of this covers the cost of initially sending out adventurers to establish such a teleportation system (and we know they are a greedy lot).</blockquote>

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