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No it says right there, 20gp.
But it's still very good price
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.
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.”
Damn Mansa Musa
That can be an interesting story. Adventurer with their gold coins wreck a village economy until the taxperson comes
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.
I'm this economy?
10-100 days wages for seemingly a lifetime of prevented deadnaming and misgendering? That seems like a good deal to me.
For the lower end calculating it as minimum wage it's the equivalent of $5,800.
Not a bad deal, but quite expensive still
I remember roughly a decade ago I worked out that a gold was equivalent in purchasing power to somewhere on the order of $100, and $100 was a nice round number that’s easy to use to get a ballpark feel for what something is worth, so I pretty much always use that. I’m guessing inflation and/or doomsday preppers (or political culture) has significantly raised the price of gold since then. Inflation too.
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
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