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<blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 3481683" data-attributes="member: 44949">I hope I have put this in the correct forum ...I have just started a campaign that is quickly going to need a more detailed pricing list for various goods and supplies than I generally use. The characters are ship based. They are going to be acquiring cargoes from pirates (and maybe some legitimate merchants if they get the privateer license they're already after), but they are also planning on doing buying and selling of goods themselves.Most of the pricing lists I've seen for goods in D20 products are ... historically broken to say the least. The pricing seems to be based more on modern availability of goods than anything with a real world historical consideration. (For instance, pepper was a valued commodity that needed to be imported from far off areas, as was silk. Whole trading empires were built around such goods. Yet they're often priced like salt and cotton.)So, what I am looking for is a product that has some realistic pricing guidelines. I would love to find something that had real pricing lists from European history. I don't need it to be a gaming product; a solid and accurate non-fiction book from the history section would be fine by me.Can anyone out there recommend some good books/products for me to pick up to help with this campaign? Web based resources would be great as well.Thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SiderisAnon, post: 3481683, member: 44949"] I hope I have put this in the correct forum ... I have just started a campaign that is quickly going to need a more detailed pricing list for various goods and supplies than I generally use. The characters are ship based. They are going to be acquiring cargoes from pirates (and maybe some legitimate merchants if they get the privateer license they're already after), but they are also planning on doing buying and selling of goods themselves. Most of the pricing lists I've seen for goods in D20 products are ... historically broken to say the least. The pricing seems to be based more on modern availability of goods than anything with a real world historical consideration. (For instance, pepper was a valued commodity that needed to be imported from far off areas, as was silk. Whole trading empires were built around such goods. Yet they're often priced like salt and cotton.) So, what I am looking for is a product that has some realistic pricing guidelines. I would love to find something that had real pricing lists from European history. I don't need it to be a gaming product; a solid and accurate non-fiction book from the history section would be fine by me. Can anyone out there recommend some good books/products for me to pick up to help with this campaign? Web based resources would be great as well. Thank you. [/QUOTE]

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