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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3509313" data-attributes="member: 4937">Probably not.  I tried to make the case that the market for magic items need not be as easy to enter as a retail shop in the modern world, or even the medieval market for wheat or even pepper, and that because of all the special circumstances involved individual transactions for magic items need not remotely resemble Adam Smith's idealized markets.  I tried to suggest that buying a magic item would have more in common with haggling in Cairo marketplace or a by inventation only diamond auction in Amsterdam or an international arms market than it would to going into a discount store.  I certainly wasn't trying to paint the middle ages with an overly simple brush or claim that the people of the middle ages were stupid, or any of the other things that get medievalists touchy.  Now if those assertions depend on a discussion about how the number of growing days in Germany effected the price of wheat in England or some thing like that, go to town.Better yet, since I've wanted one for years, if the data on medieval economics is that good and you are that familiar with it, I would love to have a consistant, comprehensive, and accurate price list based on medieval economics say circa 13th century, together with the wages earned by laborers and craftsman of various types and realistic lengths of time required to craft goods using ancient techniques.  Done well, that's a pdf I'd buy.</blockquote>

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