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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 4661424" data-attributes="member: 813">For a normal peasant, 500gp is more money than he, his wife, and his 10 children and their spouses will earn their entire lives. The price is very much so an issue. For a merchant, 500gp is probably a couple of years of gross income. For a baron, 500gp is probably equal to his yearly obligation to his king. Doubling your peasants' taxes so you can raise your dead mistress from the dead isn't going to make your peasants happy.D&D economics are skewed toward the adventuring party. There hundreds of forum posts where anyone who has tried to make sense of it ends up committed to an asylum.How does the state benefit by giving out 500 gp loans? 500 gp could be the entire tax base for a large barony. If 20 people die in an orc raid, is the local baron going to cough up 10,000 gp to raise them all by raising his taxes 1900%?</blockquote>