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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8970325" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Gygax took a late medieval historical price list in shillings to be his gold piece value. One book I know he checked out (noted in the old due date card) is almost identical to the D&amp;D OE price list. (what isn't is rounding the second significant digit to nearest multiple of 5.)&nbsp; that book also noted that some times and places, a gold penny was minted, and notionally valued at a shilling...&nbsp; so a gold penny worth a shilling, and you get the transformation of medieval debased silver into notional gp... truth is, D&amp;D prices for most everything but magic should drop a factor of 20 My solution to this is they get, usually, midway between ore and bar stock price for captured metal weapons...Which puts them a couple coins down the AD&amp;D/3E/4E/5Eits stories like this that send me to the closer to sane £sd money used in Pendragon, WFRP, and a few others... when a penny or two is dining out inn style....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8970325, member: 6779310"] Gygax took a late medieval historical price list in shillings to be his gold piece value. One book I know he checked out (noted in the old due date card) is almost identical to the D&D OE price list. (what isn't is rounding the second significant digit to nearest multiple of 5.) that book also noted that some times and places, a gold penny was minted, and notionally valued at a shilling... so a gold penny worth a shilling, and you get the transformation of medieval debased silver into notional gp... truth is, D&D prices for most everything but magic should drop a factor of 20 My solution to this is they get, usually, midway between ore and bar stock price for captured metal weapons... Which puts them a couple coins down the AD&D/3E/4E/5E its stories like this that send me to the closer to sane £sd money used in Pendragon, WFRP, and a few others... when a penny or two is dining out inn style.... [/QUOTE]

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