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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 380388" data-attributes="member: 277">First recognized the prices that adventurers pay are not what charlie commoner paids. In the movie "if this tuesday it must be rome" , an american walks into a shoe shop and tries to buy hand made tan shoes. First a little verbage of what is tan aka black and white, then price.The owner holds up a chalk board with $40 on in. Then the scene shifts to over the owner shoulder with $20 written on that side. Then the tourist leaves the owner opens a catalog pionts to a black and white pair of shoes "tan" with a price in the single digits.Thanks for reminder of priest power and prescence Col P.Now most commoners are not going down to the local McDonalds everday to eat. Also chickens reproduce and if they old enough to walk they old enough to do some work.Copper was hardly every used alone for coinage.Roman did do hot strikes on bronze, silver and goldMost English coinage was a silver alloy, in fact, Good King Henry the 8th was nicknamed old copper nose near the end of his reign. This was because he reminted the groats (4 pennies) so the copper content shown through on the nose due to the most wear.The peasants made their own beer hey I make my own beer It costs about 50 cents a bottle. Money, trade, barter, etc did go on.  it was not two sheep for wood. Also some bookkeeping was done read the Parson's Letters.Some taxes ideas, shield tax, sword tax, beer tax, horse tax, lodging tax, tolls, tolls, and more tolls, If you really want to be mean, force your adventurers to go to a money changer boom lose 10 % or more especially on copper coins, and if you sticking with middle ages theme no one knows or cares that half the gp are from Good King Richard 3rd reign and you on now on Prince Humperdint.Hong thanks for the 7.5 billion chickens article gee I didn't know every village had a replicator<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> But if anyone does get a great working economic system which includes the core books spells and monster please post it.</blockquote>

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