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[Cthulhu]

Oh, alright.  Do you have supplies for two weeks?

[Criptfeind]

Yeah. Maybe.

[Araph]

We didn't think to bring supplies?

[Criptfeind]

I was sort of thinking we could pick up that stuff after the session. It is pretty tedious to do it in game. I mean, look how much just getting the box open slowed things down.

[Cthulhu]

If you weren't so insistent on denying a guy the pay for using the tiny, complicated, and specialized tools and skills he has, it wouldn't have taken so long.  Jeez.

I'll figure out how much experience everyone has soon.

[Criptfeind]

It was a gyp. It is not like he loses anything worth anything. He gained his skills and his tool to be a blacksmith. If he does not want to be a blacksmith he should not be a blacksmith!

[ragnarok97071]

Dude, he probably didn't have a choice. Most likely, his father, his father's father, and so on, have all been blacksmiths, and so on for as long as can be remembered. People didn't really get much of a choice in profession.

Unless they are adventurers, of course.

[Jusman]

I'm sorry (for myself) that I couldn't stay for the second trip out.
As for gear, I took the masterwork light wooden shield (153gp).

Like last week I should be free wednesday night, if anyone wants to travel somewhere. (By the way, should making plans for trips be in here or the tavern thread?)

[Cthulhu]

It was a gyp. It is not like he loses anything worth anything. He gained his skills and his tool to be a blacksmith. If he does not want to be a blacksmith he should not be a blacksmith!

Can you pick a lock?  No?  Then deal.  That's how things work, people with skills get to screw over people who don't.

[Criptfeind]

It was a gyp. It is not like he loses anything worth anything. He gained his skills and his tool to be a blacksmith. If he does not want to be a blacksmith he should not be a blacksmith!

Can you pick a lock?  No?  Then deal.  That's how things work, people with skills get to screw over people who don't.

I can not tell if we are still joking or if this has turned into a serious discussion on how a middle age economy works.

If it is still joking: Well then, maybe I should have used my head bashing skills to screw him over.

If not joking: Although true to a point, there are limits on the acceptable amount of screwing over one can do. This is called the market price. If you do not deal at around this price, you are fucked with everyone who is not a farmer keeling over from starvation and the farms getting eaten by bears. In addition to this, for many people their time can and is measured in money. For a black smith that is around 3.75 copper pieces per hour. I offered him over 13 hours of pay, for a few seconds of work. Hell, I even offered him that outrageous price knowingly. I know that NPC's screw over PC's, I just did not know that you were going to try to have him screw me out of almost three months pay.

[Cthulhu]

You got 150 gold out of it, man.  That's like a month's pay.

Anyway, haven't you seen that order of the stick where the party comes into town and everyone's suddenly jacking up prices on everything because they knwo they're loaded

You may as well be wearing a hawaiian shirt, he knows you have the money.

[Criptfeind]

Cthulhu. You will always be a enigma to me. You get mad at Barbarossa for breaking realism with the names of his skeletons, then you base your npc's economy on a web comic that breaks the fourth wall more times then France has sent up the white flag.

Also you will note, they are much higher level then us, 25gp means nothing to them, the opportunity cost makes it not worth picking up off the floor. For 25gp and the right to ruffle though their pockets I would kill a man at level one.

[Cthulhu]

The comic is a joke but it's illustrating an actual concept.  They don't know what level you are.  All they know is you're adventurers, and adventurers are supposed to carry around economy-destabilizing amounts of gold.

The easier answer, though:  I just threw out a price.

[Araph]

Heh. Funny comic, that.

While you do make a good point about the whole 'adventurer=rich' thing, Cthulhu, 25 gp was higher than what could be expected for what took me ten seconds with a crowbar. The trained professional card doesn't work because of that.

[Heron TSG]

Cthulhu. You will always be a enigma to me. You get mad at Barbarossa for breaking realism with the names of his skeletons. . .

Yes, that. I thought that Ahnold, Barry, and Cal were perfectly abecedarian names.