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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 267263" data-attributes="member: 2011">No. In fact, the SRD states that it can be done, but with no description. Gotta go look that up.At 3.8M GP (or even 530K GP), we are talking serious money. Probably not that much money (3.8M GP) minted in an average campaign world country unless you consider weird population city states like Waterdeep.The largest real world medieval cities had at most 200,000 people during their most prosperous times. But Waterdeep has something like 1,400,000 people (if I remember correctly), requiring an average of 1400 tons of food to be brought in from the surrounding countryside every single day. That's 700 fully loaded wagon teams, when put end to end, stretches for over 2.5 miles, on average each day. Considering that most of the the farming portion of a society's diet can only be gathered during a few week harvest time, we are probably talking about a peak traffic jam of about 100 miles of wagons every day in the fall for several weeks straight (assuming all of those wagons can actually get into the city each day). Yikes!With a 1 CP = $1 conversion rate (a fair, but debatable rate), the 3.8M GP comes out to $380,000,000. That's an astronomical amount of equivalent money for one individual (in a medieval society).One way of looking at it is giving all 140 of the Palace Guards +5 Plate Mail.Or in terms of weight (50 GP per pound), it's 76,000 pounds or 38 tons of gold. It would take 19 fully loaded Wagon teams (200,000 GP per wagon). That might not sound like a lot, but that wagon team would stretch for about 400 feet.That's an awful lot of gold for one spell. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sometimes, the problem with what is written in fantasy RPGs, especially with regard to economics, is that the designers do not take a step back and say "What did we just write?".</blockquote>

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