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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5834129" data-attributes="member: 51930">Great lists!One thing that's really getting me about equipment is when I design my own.  How much should it weight?  How much should it cost?  Is it important enough to be designed, or is something else already good enough?What would or wouldn't exist in a medieval society, and what it might cost, are really different from our world.  Chalk, for example, iirc used to come from an actual place: cliffs made of the stuff, you'd mine it and ship it.  Now we have it chemically made, I believe, so it's cheaper and easier to fabricate.  Even ale: we're used to ale produced en masse, and if you drive by one of the breweries by the big beer-makers you'll see sky-scraper sized tanks filled with the stuff, using really hi-tech equipment so they can squeeze out as much beer as possible for the cheapest price.  OTOH if you make it yourself, in a cottage industry the way a fantasy setting would need to be (save for artificer-crafted Eberron beers, but let's ignore that for now and go standard) you're talking about waiting about a month for the beer to be ready if you're brewing a batch about two-by-three feet, say.  After all that work, including the sterilizing process (which ought to be difficult in medieval times, without disinfectants or even bleach, I believe), do you really think you'd let a pint of ale go for less than an hours wage or so?  Well, it would be more expensive in some respects, all I'm saying.</blockquote>

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