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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7468028" data-attributes="member: 58197">That's why I added the caveat about PCs engaging in a scheme to mass produce continual flame items. At the gaming table, prices are mostly static, for the reasons you state. It's a convenient abstraction for the DM. When we're debating worldbuilding and the history of the setting, though, there's no reason to treat "50 gp for a continual flame item" as an ironclad law for all time.Rather, we can assume that the price has ebbed and flowed. It spiked when the spell was invented. It dropped when the Anti-Magic Edict of Grimdark the Obnoxious wiped out most of the demand. But at this moment in time, the equilibrium price hovers around 50 in most parts of the world. In some places it's 60, in some places it's 40. In a few places, it might be 10 or it might be 200, but those are unusual. If you plug 50 gp into your math, you get a rough idea how hard it is for a common laborer to buy such an item in most places.</blockquote>