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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8342195" data-attributes="member: 12731">That's fair.But what you likely aren't considering is that it is the needs of the gamist a price list needs to be balanced for.He's the customer where game balance is needed. And that is the hard part we pay money to publishers to do.In comparison just going &quot;it makes no world sense there should be X for sale here&quot; or &quot;the merchant is desperate and let's you have the magic thingamajig for just your spare change&quot; needs no serious development to pull off.Unfortunately, what i am saying is that a price list geared towards you is useless to me, but a price list geared towards me is not useless to you.I say unfortunately because the only logical conclusion is to publish rational utility-based price lists (gamist ones if you will) or not bother at all.For instance, in my opinion the official 5E price lists are a fig leaf. Their only value is basically for WotC to be able to say &quot;we do have price lists&quot; without actually having to spend the developer effort necessary to produce anything actually consistent.It bears mentioning that plenty of gamers find them useful.But those are gamers who would use or ignore ANY price list, while I'm only interested in the consistent kind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 8342195, member: 12731"] That's fair. But what you likely aren't considering is that it is the needs of the gamist a price list needs to be balanced for. He's the customer where game balance is needed. And that is the hard part we pay money to publishers to do. In comparison just going "it makes no world sense there should be X for sale here" or "the merchant is desperate and let's you have the magic thingamajig for just your spare change" needs no serious development to pull off. Unfortunately, what i am saying is that a price list geared towards you is useless to me, but a price list geared towards me is not useless to you. I say unfortunately because the only logical conclusion is to publish rational utility-based price lists (gamist ones if you will) or not bother at all. For instance, in my opinion the official 5E price lists are a fig leaf. Their only value is basically for WotC to be able to say "we do have price lists" without actually having to spend the developer effort necessary to produce anything actually consistent. It bears mentioning that plenty of gamers find them useful. But those are gamers who would use or ignore ANY price list, while I'm only interested in the consistent kind. [/QUOTE]

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