The APG gives us 'Loaded dice' (average & superior) but I do not see the cost of non-loaded dice!
Let's compile your votes, and come up with the best cost for Dice! Perhaps this will be useful to other adventurers as well! Make an effort to 'explain' the reasoning behind the cost you propose.
So, What would YOU say the 'cost' is for (well made and balanced) dice (with Dice == TWO x d6 cubic die) for these 4 types of dice:
A) Made of WOOD (average quality)
B) Made of WOOD (superior quality)
C) Made of IVORY (superior quality)
D) Made of SILVER (superior quality)
I will then add these Item to TOS+ as per the consensus reached!
THANKS for participating!!!
a)3copper
b)2silver
c)5gold
d)30gold
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It all really depends on the specific rarity of the material. Silver for example shouldn't be too hugely expensive since you can smelt down 5-10 silver coins to get the amount of silver required to make them. As for wood... IRL wood comes as cheap as free to as expensive as agarwood which sells for upwards of $5000 a pound. Ivory also is a strange thing because it doesn't JUST come from elephants, but rhino, dinosaurs, and even dragons.
A)2cp
B)5sp
C)20gp
D)5gp
It all really depends on the specific rarity of the material. Silver for example shouldn't be too hugely expensive since you can smelt down 5-10 silver coins to get the amount of silver required to make them. As for wood... IRL wood comes as cheap as free to as expensive as agarwood which sells for upwards of $5000 a pound. Ivory also is a strange thing because it doesn't JUST come from elephants, but rhino, dinosaurs, and even dragons.
I totally agree - and EVEN wood could be quite expensive (in a desert or the Arctic?)
I suggest we leave Rarity/Location/Weather etc.. aside, and try to come up with an 'average' for a whole world. As anything, price will always be relative to location and available resources/skilled (cheap?) labor :)
So let's assume that the raw materials are available and are part of the price.
Thanks!!
The thing with dice, is that you can make a whole mess of them from a pound of raw material. After all, when I buy a pound of dice, I'm getting over a hundred of them.
Yeah... made by a Machine, out of Plastic? HEHE
Let's consider in Medieval times!!
True, but from a pound of wood, I'm sure there's about 40 dice. possibly the same from ivory, but I don't know it's density to justify it's volume to weight. lol
It's not the 'qty' that a block of wood has - but the difficulty of making a nearly perfect CUBE out of just a small piece of it! And NO, you can't use a table saw to make it :P
So far, we have:
3x Participants: Thokk the Ruleslaywer, Carbon D. Metric, Duniagdra DaaMyour
A) Made of WOOD (average quality): 3, 2, 4 Copper pieces
B) Made of WOOD (superior quality): 2, 5, 1 Silver pieces
C) Made of IVORY (superior quality): 5, 20, 1 Gold pieces
D) Made of SILVER (superior quality): 30, 5, 0.4 Gold pieces
Analysis: Seems that people agree that average two die made of wood, is just a few coppers, while a well balanced pair would be in the Silver pieces.
The disparity increases with the Ivory & Silver dice though: Ivory is a hard substance to work with and probably requires much patience. (check Ivory on the Wikipedia here)
Silver would require metallurgy skills to melt the metal. You could either make a Mold, where you'd pour liquid silver in to make the die - OR, build the die from a blob of silver, which is a malleable metal. This would require much skills to build a perfect cube shape. (check Silver on the Wikipedia here)
So which of these two materials are harded to work into a small cube? It seems our participants do not agree on this! :)
Any more propositions?