![]() This means the value of a gp is about $16. The PHB says a light crossbow costs 25gp. We want our adventurers to have the best equipment for fighting demons, not some knockoff. While I have no idea if it is comparable, a higher-end crossbow (the Barnet Whitetail Hunter II) is $400. Crossbows are, shockingly, not hard to find. Thus, in the cattle market, a gp might be worth $40 Assuming 1200 lbs and $50 per hundredweight a slaughter weight cow is worth $600. However, hopefully, a slaughter weight cow is comparable. Believe it or not, there isn’t a real market for oxen (generally castrated steers used for farm labor). The PHB places the cost of an ox at 15 gp. I put them in the same category, which shows I know nothing about agriculture. This makes a gp worth $23.68, although the price fluctuates.Ĭow or ox. The organic grain crop markets aren’t as active as traditional farming markets, so it can be hard to get a price. We can assume that our hardworking medieval peasants produce high-quality organic wheat, and the best price I could find was around $14.21 per bushel of organic food-grade hard red spring wheat. ![]() A pound of wheat in the PHB costs a copper, and a bushel is 60 pounds, so a bushel is 0.6 gp. Gold may be slightly overvalued at this time, as lucky investors were able to purchase it for about a third of the cost in 2001.īushel of wheat. The PHB notes that a pound of gold is 50gp, and that makes a gp worth $437.50. The current price of gold at the time of writing was $1500 per troy ounce, and there are about 14.58 troy ounces in an Avoirdupois (standard) pound meaning that a pound of gold costs ~$21,874.95. Gold is an excellent trade good to track, because as an investment it retains its value over time and is, in general, a great hedge against inflation. However, there are still some items between economies that map quite well. For example, you probably can’t pick up a longsword at the local sporting goods store. There are some goods from the DnD world that just don’t quite map to today’s economy. This model looks at poor and modest lifestyle expenses (as given in the PHB) and compares them to the poverty rate and median income in the United States. The second method uses the lifestyle model. The first is a basket of goods approach, where I take some comparable goods from the D&D universe, and tie them analogous real-world counterparts, and compare prices. To figure out the approximate worth of a gold piece, I used two methods. For this purpose, I am just looking for a way to have an approximate idea of what a gp is worth, not set up a fantasy to real-world currency exchange (please don’t come after me, SEC). However, we must acknowledge that the medieval fantasy economy that also contains dragons and fireballs probably doesn’t directly map on to our advanced, mechanized, non-fireball economy. ![]() But more than that, I also wanted to have a reference point for myself and my players. I loved taking a deep dive on this topic: I enjoy looking at how people value things, even if we are talking about fantasy economies full of fake wizard people. Also, it’s almost impossible to compare two radically different economies. Maybe slightly more, but we like round numbers.
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