10-20-2018, 07:35 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Portland, Maine
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Gem Size
When you envision magic Gems mentioned in TFT, what size do you think of?
Golfball Size? Eyeball Size? D20 size? Pea Size? BB size? The reason I ask is that if we are using Real World gem price ratios as a ballpark: a 2 carat (2mm round cut) diamond would run about $5000. So if we are picturing walnut sized gems (300 carats?), they are either going to cost something like $25,000,000 or the price of a carat is going to be vastly reduced.
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10-20-2018, 09:29 PM | #3 |
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Re: Gem Size
There's gems and there's gems. Jet is a gemstone, after all. A 22-carat piece of jet should be worth a lot less than a 22-carat diamond but might be just as enchantable as the diamond. (The Wikipedia article even mentions Jet's magical uses.)
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10-20-2018, 10:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Gem Size
Probably varies by the local market and by gem quality and cut, quite a bit. It could be fun to have some guidelines and examples, though.
(Also it may be good for the GM to decide how it works in his settings, so players can't meta-game an appraisal skill their characters don't have. Though even if there are established prices, being able to identify gem type and quality is still going to need the PC to do the assessment.) (Sounds like this may be the sort of topic that they want in the house rules section.) |
10-21-2018, 09:59 PM | #6 |
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Re: Gem Size
Cidri was engineered to be a playground for egomaniacal plane-hopping gods.
Maybe it was designed to have a profusion of enormous gems, at least compared to our Earth. This would naturally mean that stones like the hope diamond would be worth comparatively less due to being much more common. I tend to assume that Cidri's environment and ecology was to a large degree engineered by the Mnoren to suit their fancies. Therefore, the bacteria that tend to ruin gunpowder are there because they didn't want sophisticated gunpowder to be too commonplace. Perhaps they didn't like the idea of people shooting at each other. Or them. |
10-22-2018, 05:08 AM | #7 |
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Re: Gem Size
Real-world gem values aren't linear with weight (modern diamond prices are more like exponential), so division and multiplication aren't as useful as they might seem for projecting values for different sizes, types, or quality of gems. GMs have a lot of wiggle room to fiddle around with prices or pick a size and material for any desired value.
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