Counting coins

[trial]

For those who want to count coins and dont uses resources, are there any tables of equipment/weapons/clothings etc with their prices?
Should I take this information from DND?

[Kublai]

There never was a coin cost chart for gear in BW. Economies seem so setting specific that such a chart would be impractical. The closes thing you get is that little chart in the Resources section that shows what a person earns and how much a horse costs.

[Redoid]

Costs have changed widely during even narrow parts of the middle ages, and not taking into account the economic consequences of having monsters and magic in a medieval economy. Unfortunately, we don't have price many price lists from the Middle Ages. You might be interested by this link :

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article251.asp

But it draws upon multiple time periods, and prices changed greatly. An interesting source for the late Roman empire is an edict by Diocletian setting max prices for a lot of goods and wages, but one century later, some priced varied by a factor of 45 :shock: as the price was heavily influenced by the evolution of coins and their metallic composition. So, be extremely wary with price lists, and only use them for flavour.

Besides, availability would be the main factor in price. Without the good connections, it's impossible to buy a warhorse, even if you happen to own the required amount of gold. That's why I prefer the abstract Ressource test, rather than counting livres, sous and deniers (grrr, it's deniers not derniers, damn proofreading :D )

Besides, abstracting let's you conveniently forget that you're carrying 21,678 gold pieces on your mule, and that you're agreeing to work for someone paying a whopping 20 gold pieces to share among the group, which happened in a campaign I am playing in, and which severely tamper with suspension of disbelief.