Trade Goods rules question

[Lucius Foxhound]

Perusing my PHB the other day, I came upon p. 96 that lists the value of Trade Goods... specifically, animals.

Can someone tell me why one Dog costs 25 GP while an Ox is only 15 GP, a cow is only 10 GP, and even a goat is a mere 1 GP??

What's so great about these dogs?

 

[hong]

Re: Trading rules question

Can someone tell me why one Dog costs 25 GP while an Ox is only 15 GP, a cow is only 10 GP, and even goat is a mere 1 GP??

What's so great about these dogs?

It's those deep, soulful brown eyes, mang.


Hong "am I sharing too much?" Ooi

 

[shilsen]

Supply and demand. All the halfling paladins buying dogs drove the price up.

 

[hammymchamham]

Did you ever see the movie 'The Patriot' with Mel Gibson? I believe the line was 'Dog makes a good meal.'

 

[Otterscrubber]

Leave it to the Iconic Pig to draw attention away from bacon...

 

[hammymchamham]

why yes, no need to eat bacons. yeah. um... yeah

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

Seriously, though... even if we're talking about trained hunting dogs (and I doubt any DM would assume that the dig you just traded for is a world-class hunting dog), well, should two cows cost more than a trained hunting dog?

I think someone at WotC just has a thing for dogs....

 

[Tom Cashel]

Fantasy economics, man. It's the World According to Gygax.

And check out this thread.

 

[hammymchamham]

how much does a cow cost today? how much for a dog? and I'm not talking about the 'Free puppies.' A cow is what? 100 dollars. A good dog can be at least $400.

 

[mystraschosen]

leave it to the ham

leave it to the ham to state the case for a little dog....hmm now that I think about it he is very fond of little pathetic things like deep gnomes named finippir....who are obviously inferior to mighty drow named Tebryn.