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Old 03-16-2018, 05:40 PM   #27
Colarmel
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Northeast Kansas
Default Re: Animal part value

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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf View Post
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.
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.
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