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<blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 962583" data-attributes="member: 527">You always grind the party down with economics.&nbsp; Consider what happens if the nearest town is a little hamlet with only couple sledgehammers.&nbsp; And when they're gone:Party: &quot;We need more hammers.&quot;Shopkeeper: &quot;I will buy some more for you when I travel next to Big Town next week.&quot;Party: &quot;But we want them now!&quot;The further beauty of this is that the law of supply and demand will cause a sharp spike in the price of hammers.&nbsp; As the party destroys a higher and higher percentage of all of the hammers in the Kingdom against the mithral door, hammers themselves will become among the most prized and expensive items in the Kingdom.&nbsp; Ironic, no?&nbsp; I suggest you drive this message home by having the Kingdom switch to the &quot;hammer standard&quot; of currency after 75% of the hammers in the Kingdom have been destroyed.&nbsp; The gold and silver in the vault will still be worth something, but only in comparison to the basic currency unit of &quot;one hammer&quot;.&nbsp; Shopkeeper: &quot;You want Plate Mail?&nbsp; OK.&nbsp; How many hammers do you have?&quot;<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="Gizzard, post: 962583, member: 527"] You always grind the party down with economics. Consider what happens if the nearest town is a little hamlet with only couple sledgehammers. And when they're gone: Party: "We need more hammers." Shopkeeper: "I will buy some more for you when I travel next to Big Town next week." Party: "But we want them now!" The further beauty of this is that the law of supply and demand will cause a sharp spike in the price of hammers. As the party destroys a higher and higher percentage of all of the hammers in the Kingdom against the mithral door, hammers themselves will become among the most prized and expensive items in the Kingdom. Ironic, no? I suggest you drive this message home by having the Kingdom switch to the "hammer standard" of currency after 75% of the hammers in the Kingdom have been destroyed. The gold and silver in the vault will still be worth something, but only in comparison to the basic currency unit of "one hammer". Shopkeeper: "You want Plate Mail? OK. How many hammers do you have?" :D [/QUOTE]

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