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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4321000" data-attributes="member: 834">SD, only the top strata can afford to pay what would amount to the price of a car for something that can only be used for fighting.  That's like 1% of the population.  By the cost of a meal in 4e, I would expect that less than 1% of the population can pay 50 gp in tthe standard D&D world too.The jet annalogy got to be wrong.  At the battle of Hagincourt, France fielded more knights than the USAF possess manned aircraft of all kind (5778 according to wiki).  Plus many of the men-at-arms on foot also had plate.  And the kingdom of France at the time didn't control half of its current territory.  We're talking an economy of maybe four millions people that had been torn by war for more than one generation at that time.  If all knights were worth a Jet...  Let's not be silly.And again, the prices dropped.  They always drop.  I know for sure it was more expensive in absolute value to suit up a knight in the 900s when they were using chainmail than in the 1500s when they were using plate.  Production increases constantly. Most of the ultra-expensive plate armor were never intended for battle.  They were parade suit.  Functional plate harness weren't cheap, but they were cheap enough so that at the very least 10,000 french fighters had one in the 1400s (There was between 20 and 30 thousands frenchmen at Hagincourt alone, including 1/3 knights plus some heavy infantry).</blockquote>

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