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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1530791" data-attributes="member: 13471">Well, in order to be enchanted, an item has to be of masterwork quality.  A generic "masterwork tool" costs 50 gp, masterwork instruments and thieves tools cost 100 gp.  A set of courtiers' clothing costs 30gp, noble clothing costs 75 gp, and royal clothing costs 200gp.  Based on these costs, a set of "masterwork clothing" probably costs between 50-100 gp.  For an individual item, such as a cloak, gloves, or boots, I'd take 1/4 or 1/5 of the total, so 10-20 gp.  While a cloak is large, it's relatively simple to make (compared to the close tolerances needed for something like gloves or boots), so call it 10 gp.That may not seem like much, but with characters running around spending tens of thousands of GP, we tend to forget that the minimum daily wage in D&D is 1 silver.  This implies that 1 sp has about as much buying power as $50 modern.  However, the food and lodging prices in the PH imply that 1 sp = about $10.  Either way, 10 gp = between $1,000 and $5,000, enough to buy a decent gaming computer complete with monitor and speakers.  A suit of full plate = $150,000+  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>