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<blockquote data-quote="Will" data-source="post: 1654657" data-attributes="member: 5566">re: Spell costs. This hit me when I was considering 'sea clerics' casting various spells on a ship.If someone could guarantee using even a fraction of their spells, daily, for listed prices... it'd beat the hell out of adventuring! They'd make more than ANYONE at their level.I decided that spell prices are listed for quick 'shopping' type stuff. That mage makes a month's wages out of the rare guy coming in for Identify.I suspect that clerics or others working in a total service capacity should more accurately be 'priced' as 'talented craftsman' wages. The numbers of clerics available, at least according to DMG, supports the idea of a ubiquity of basic healing magics.On to the main topic...I think one issue lurking behind this isn't about the figures, it's about the model. A lot of games say 'medieval europe' and then portray this barely-inhabited wasteland dotted with small isolated communities. Which is almost nothing like anywhere in medieval europe, mainly because they're emulating Tolkein, who wasn't doing medieval europe, neither.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Will, post: 1654657, member: 5566"] re: Spell costs. This hit me when I was considering 'sea clerics' casting various spells on a ship. If someone could guarantee using even a fraction of their spells, daily, for listed prices... it'd beat the hell out of adventuring! They'd make more than ANYONE at their level. I decided that spell prices are listed for quick 'shopping' type stuff. That mage makes a month's wages out of the rare guy coming in for Identify. I suspect that clerics or others working in a total service capacity should more accurately be 'priced' as 'talented craftsman' wages. The numbers of clerics available, at least according to DMG, supports the idea of a ubiquity of basic healing magics. On to the main topic... I think one issue lurking behind this isn't about the figures, it's about the model. A lot of games say 'medieval europe' and then portray this barely-inhabited wasteland dotted with small isolated communities. Which is almost nothing like anywhere in medieval europe, mainly because they're emulating Tolkein, who wasn't doing medieval europe, neither. [/QUOTE]

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