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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 879663" data-attributes="member: 1264">No, I don't think you're missing something. Although I suspect the guys at WotC are... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Does the A&amp;EG say anything about what material a &quot;normal&quot; insect net is made of? Sounds like they assume you need some sort of high quality silk to begin with. In which case we should probably not charge any higher than 250 or 300 gp for a watersilk version. What's the listed weight for an insect net? Ordinary silk costs 20 gp per lb, for 2 square yards. 200 gp would buy you 20 square yards, which is close to the 10'x20' dimensions you mentioned. Sounds like they assume a very lightly woven silk, which has the same cost as regular silk per square yard, but is much lighter in weight.Poor people living near a swamp would presumably use a lower quality version of this made from some sort of cheese cloth type material, costing around 1gp or so (twice the price of a blanket).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 879663, member: 1264"] No, I don't think you're missing something. Although I suspect the guys at WotC are... :rolleyes: Does the A&EG say anything about what material a "normal" insect net is made of? Sounds like they assume you need some sort of high quality silk to begin with. In which case we should probably not charge any higher than 250 or 300 gp for a watersilk version. What's the listed weight for an insect net? Ordinary silk costs 20 gp per lb, for 2 square yards. 200 gp would buy you 20 square yards, which is close to the 10'x20' dimensions you mentioned. Sounds like they assume a very lightly woven silk, which has the same cost as regular silk per square yard, but is much lighter in weight. Poor people living near a swamp would presumably use a lower quality version of this made from some sort of cheese cloth type material, costing around 1gp or so (twice the price of a blanket). [/QUOTE]

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