Price of Lead


Rules Questions


Anyone happen to know any D&D3.5/PF reference that states what the price of lead is?

Thanks

- Gauss

Shadow Lodge

i would assume about the same as a round of ammunition. mybe 50% as you dont need the powder or casing.


Lead is one of the easiest-to-mine, easiest-to-work metals there is. There's a reason it's dirt cheap. So pricing it the same as ammunition is way too high. I would guess in bulk it would be on the order of 5-10 copper pieces per pound, but that's just an estimate as something around 1/5-1/10 the price of copper.

(I don't have a book handy, but I seem to recall coins are 1/3 oz. each, so it's around 50 CP for a pound of copper, so 5-10 for a pound of lead seems like a 'starting ballpark figure')


Well sling bullets cost 1sp and they weigh 5 lbs. So 2cp/lbs and since this is worked lead to a round shape I would say something between 1cp and 1.75cp for a pound. If you are buying in bulk as a DM I would call it as 1cp.

Grand Lodge

Like bricks of it?
No idea.
I have been asking about the prices of various metals and materials for a while.


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Interesting, if I were to try to use modern prices lead is actually MORE expensive than gold. Of course, that is not 'historical' but then again, neither is D&D/PF. Hehehe.

Thanks for the sling bullet idea. Perhaps I will use sling bullet pricing as a baseline. Lets see: 1sp for 5lbs but if we use the craft rules that means the materials are 1/3sp for 5lbs. That works out to 2/3cp per lb.

- Gauss

Grand Lodge

I want to know the price of Lazurite, Uranium, Caphorite, and Blightburn.


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I have a 3.5 era 3PP book called "A Magical Society: Silk Roads" by Expeditious Retreat Press.

They list pure lead at 5 CP/lb.

It may not be as official as what you're looking for but the rest of the book is very carefully in line with core assumptions and well researched.

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