The Price of Pie and the Inherent Cost of Beating up an Orc

[Norfleet]

Pie: 3 sps.
Heavy mace: 12 gps.
Beating up your first orc: Priceless.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

I use basic economics in my game. Everything is not the same price town to town, country to country. Sometimes it frustrates players, but I like it and think iot adds a good level of flavor.

Ditto.

If done right, I think it would make a good addition to a book, but I'm not sure a book solely on this would be needed.

Although I'd say that it's worth a consideration of an FNCC Netbook. As is, I'm too wrapped up in my own world's development (including it's economics) to involve myself in a project, I think something to help DMs determine, define and quantify economics and trade would be a good resource.

 

[ced1106]

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As a DM, it's great if the system is complete and detailed, but even more, I need a "lite" system which is "quick and dirty." I need something that can resolve everything with just a die roll or two - I don't have time to track interactions among a hundred variables every time the PCs go shopping.

Quick and dirty is good. Looks like population size and (some adjective if it's a trading center or not) are standard, so that information would be useful for stuff like:
* Selling and buying magic items
* Purchasing magic components
* Inflation caused by PC spending loot

Mmm... pie.


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^

 

[Norfleet]

Inflation caused by PCs spending loot is funny as hell. I remember doing this to players once, and they become progressively more and more disgruntled as everything started to cost wheelbarrow-loads of cash. In fact, the players' behavior was part of what catalyzed the collapse of the gold standard and the invention of paper money in one of my campaigns.

With 3E, though, you sometimes think this has already happened.

I mean, seriously. Doesn't anybody think it's kind of silly that even a mid-level character will be equipped with items with a net worth in the tens of thousands of gold pieces, a quantity which weighs hundreds of pounds? For example, a 30000gp galley, comes down to some 600 pounds of gold pieces. If we figure half of a gold piece of actual GOLD, that's some 300 pounds of gold. How would you even CARRY this much money?

I'm pretty sure I can buy a stinking boat for less than my weight in gold.