• arrow74@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Is it a good price though? The average wage for a commoner is 2 sp per day. The equivalent to 100 days wages for a unskilled worker.

    Skilled workers earn about 2 gp per day. So this represents 10 days wages. A better bargain for sure.

    Adventurers are always loaded with money, so as players our view is skewed.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      have we immediately forgotten what the wizard did? i’d consider a year’s wages a pretty fucking good deal for changing the fabric of reality to suit me

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, the adventurers really skew the economy. They just casually stroll up and loot hundreds of GP from an ancient crypt, awaken a long-forgotten lich, and then fuck off. It’s always up to the city guard to put down the inevitable undead army that the lich has raised. It truly is the definition of “capitalism for thee, socialism for me.”

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        2 months ago

        That can be an interesting story. Adventurer with their gold coins wreck a village economy until the taxperson comes

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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          2 months ago

          I wonder whether an over-abundance of gold or other coins could lead to people using the gold for other purposes (such as magical reagents). I don’t know enough about how real world inflation works to speculate about how the fantasy version would work.