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<blockquote data-quote="fido_usernameinuse" data-source="post: 1205079" data-attributes="member: 15083"><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Just looked through the PHB and found that a pig is valued at 3 gold (PHB 7-3), </span></p><p><span style="color: Black">- Allright, I thought, that fits with the economic model (hired swineherder 15cp/day (DMG 4-1)).</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Then I remembered the price I must pay for meat at the local tavern, and realized it doesn't.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black">It doesn't even resemble an viable economic model when considering a chunk of meat costs 6sp/lb (PHB 7-7). IMHO</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">If you take <em>Arms and Equipment Guide</em> into the equation pork meat costs 1-5gp/lbs (A&EG 2-4), depending on which parts of the pig the meat is a cut from,</span></p><p><span style="color: Black">the prices here, on corn most notably, are so ludicrous so I probably shouldn't. (Or this post would become ridiculously longwinded.)</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Allright so it's a medieval pig, and thus it's not so ideally suited for meat-production as present-time pigs. Let's imagine it resembles a boar.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">When an adult boar weighs 175-385 lbs (<a href="http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/profile.html" target="_blank">www.britishwildboar.org.uk/profile.html</a>), it's real value must be a lot more than 3 gps.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Well I suppose WoTC could've meant a piglet and not a pig, but the price is compared (PHB 7-3) and comparable to that of a sheep (not a lamb) and a cow (not a calf).</span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Even a young fertile boar has a weight of 65lbs, so either the pig-farmer, the butcher or the retailer bags an awful lot of money.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Is there something I'm missing here or is this a major glitch in the WoTC economic model. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> </span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">(And yeah I know that a 65lb boar not equals 65lbs of meat.)</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">If not then I guess my characters are going to turn their swords in for shovels. :|</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fido_usernameinuse, post: 1205079, member: 15083"] [COLOR=Black] Just looked through the PHB and found that a pig is valued at 3 gold (PHB 7-3), - Allright, I thought, that fits with the economic model (hired swineherder 15cp/day (DMG 4-1)). Then I remembered the price I must pay for meat at the local tavern, and realized it doesn't. It doesn't even resemble an viable economic model when considering a chunk of meat costs 6sp/lb (PHB 7-7). IMHO If you take [i]Arms and Equipment Guide[/i] into the equation pork meat costs 1-5gp/lbs (A&EG 2-4), depending on which parts of the pig the meat is a cut from, the prices here, on corn most notably, are so ludicrous so I probably shouldn't. (Or this post would become ridiculously longwinded.) Allright so it's a medieval pig, and thus it's not so ideally suited for meat-production as present-time pigs. Let's imagine it resembles a boar. When an adult boar weighs 175-385 lbs ([url]www.britishwildboar.org.uk/profile.html[/url]), it's real value must be a lot more than 3 gps. Well I suppose WoTC could've meant a piglet and not a pig, but the price is compared (PHB 7-3) and comparable to that of a sheep (not a lamb) and a cow (not a calf). Even a young fertile boar has a weight of 65lbs, so either the pig-farmer, the butcher or the retailer bags an awful lot of money. Is there something I'm missing here or is this a major glitch in the WoTC economic model. :confused: (And yeah I know that a 65lb boar not equals 65lbs of meat.) If not then I guess my characters are going to turn their swords in for shovels. :|[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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