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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1330149" data-attributes="member: 2013">heh... this illustrates my biggest problem with WotC's Craft rules.The method you mentioned also works (identically, I might add) for a copper mine, a silver mine, a gold mine, a platinum mine, a gem mine, an aluminum mine, a tin mine, etc. - by which I mean that the value of material pulled from a given mine each week does not depend at ALL on the intrinsic value of the material itself.  If you have 50 miners in an adamantine mine that produce (pulling a number out of my backside; let's just say a check result of 20 - not at all out of the question since it just requires a 1st-level miner with Skill Focus, 4 Ranks of Mining, Masterwork Tools, and a 14 ability score - not out of the question by any stretch, and certainly achievable by level 3, since the extra 2 ranks he gains between levels one and three mean he needs just a 10 ability score or no masterwork tools) or 1000 gp of adamantine (less than a pound, no?) per week, those same 50 miners in a silver mine would produce...1000 gp per week (1000 pounds or 20 pounds each); those same miners in a copper mine would produce... 1000 gp per week (10,000 pounds or 200 pounds each), those same miners in an iron mine would produce...1000 gp per week (100,000 pounds or a ridiculous 1 ton each), those same miners in a coal mine would produce...1000 gp per week (closing on 1,000,000 pounds or a stupidly unrealistic amount of over 1.4 tons of coal per miner per day), those same miners in a diamond mine would produce...1000 gp per week (i.e., 1/5th of a stone)... etcThe Craft and Profession rules are HORRIBLY broken when it comes to commodities.Of course, you could limit the total volume of stuff taken out of a mine, but then you have the ridiculous prospect of a mine with 1.4 tons of coal being "mined out" in a single day by a single (1st-level) miner!!!Bottom line... don't use the Core Craft/Profession rules for this... get some other system or it gets really ridiculous really quickly.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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