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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf
If I was a dragonhide armorer and some fool delver offered to swap me 110 lbs of untanned dragonhide for a full suit of dragonhide armor, I'd take that deal in a heart beat. "Yes, you can buy $5000 of my labor for $11000 in raw materials, please come again!"
Though I guess if a lot of delvers are making "deals" like that, it explains why the typical adventurer only gets 40% of the nominal value of their stuff when they sell it in Town.
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It's typically also true in these sorts of things that not everyone knows how to work dragonhide, so they can demand a premium for their labor. More importantly, it's a good plot device to give stuff instead of cash.