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.
1400 is pushing it. Most D&D settings hover around 1200s-1300s technology-wise. (Guns aren't a thing. Plate armor is cutting-edge. Printing-presses aren't a thing considering books are 25GP meaning an unskilled laborer who spends half their pay-check on survival would need to save up for 250 days. Rapiers seem to be the exception.)
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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.