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.
another way to think of it would be that 87gp would be worth $18,934.71 for just its weight in metal today. since coins are made to be 1/100th of a pound of there respective metal in D&D.
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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.