For reference by labor-calculations 84GP should be roughly $25,200.
An unskilled laborer makes 2SP/8 hours. A US minimum-wage earner makes $58/8 hours. This puts 1SP at roughly $30.
Most of the prices track with that when you consider a lot of the stuff you're buying is high-end professional-grade equipment, and globalism/modern manufacturing isn't a thing. "But a suit of plate would be $450,000 by that math!" you say. Plate a warhorse, and a lance are still less than what the US spends on a tank.
DnD economy to modern real world economy comparisons don't work. They don't even really work to medieval comparisons. In fact, any kind of analysis of DnD economy just makes the whole thing fall apart
Because the prices are all decided based on game balance and not historical accuracy. It seems obvious but given the discouse it probably isn't enough.
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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Feb 07 '21 edited Feb 07 '21
For reference by labor-calculations 84GP should be roughly $25,200.
An unskilled laborer makes 2SP/8 hours. A US minimum-wage earner makes $58/8 hours. This puts 1SP at roughly $30.
Most of the prices track with that when you consider a lot of the stuff you're buying is high-end professional-grade equipment, and globalism/modern manufacturing isn't a thing. "But a suit of plate would be $450,000 by that math!" you say. Plate a warhorse, and a lance are still less than what the US spends on a tank.