• arrow74@lemm.ee
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        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.

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          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.”

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            That can be an interesting story. Adventurer with their gold coins wreck a village economy until the taxperson comes

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              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.

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          Wizards gotta pay back their wizard school loans somehow. This is a pretty advanced spell after all.

          But the real answer is the wizard and the commoners should band together and overthrow the <insert King/Lich/Dragon/Head Wizard> who takes all of the wealth and prevents the formation of a magical post-scarcity society.

          The wizard could start by renaming the King “Little Baby Commoner”

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          10-100 days wages for seemingly a lifetime of prevented deadnaming and misgendering? That seems like a good deal to me.

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            For the lower end calculating it as minimum wage it’s the equivalent of $5,800.

            Not a bad deal, but quite expensive still

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              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.

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    Fun fact, in a Campaign I’m playing, my Fey Bard simply “stole” the Deadname of our Cleric and now she has a total of four names and it’s awesome for everyone 😄

    The classic: “May I have your name?” blunder

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    I suspect you could do that in Mage: the Ascension (CAN YOU GUESS WHAT CAMPAIGN I AM PREPPING?!) I could see it as Prime 5/Mind 3 for super powerful blessing that makes people lose track of thought whenever they’re about to deadname you. A Mind 3/Life 2 would be less pwoerful version, you could probably add Correspondence to increase the radius of this passive effect. I do not think it may even cause too much Paradox either, it’s very Cointidental magic.

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      “So why is it 20 GP if all you did was wave your hands around and chant some incantations? Anyone could have done that…”

      “Here’s an itemized bill. 1 copper piece for waving my hands around. 1 copper piece for the incantation. 1 copper piece for the scroll… 97cp, 9sp, and 19gp for the education and experience to know which hand waving, incantations, and spell scrolls to use.”

      Seriously, every single freelancer or contractor has gotten the “Well I could have done that, what the hell am I paying you for? That only took you like 10 minutes” response after their education and experience makes the job look easy.

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        not one hour ago a client emailed me annoyed that I made their 7 emails point to one web page and didn’t make a separate but identical web pages for each email, obviously me being lazy.