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Introduced in Adventurer's Armory, was a pricing for slaves.
It as follows:
Slave, common 75 gp
Slave, hard labor 100 gp
Slave, household 50 gp
Slave, slip (halfling) 100 gp
Slave, specialized 500 gp
1) How does one determine stats?
2) How does one determine which category a slave falls into?
3)How does race effect price?
4) How do you price non-player race, and non-humanoid slaves?
| Azure_Zero |
I don't know, but will take a good guess
1) I think they have a point buy between Zero and Ten.
2) I think the physical and mental attributes will divide them
Hard hard labor ones likely have higher physical stats then mental.
household and Common are likely balances mental and physical stats.
3) I do think race would effect price, but it would also be region dependent as some races are rarer than others in certain areas.
4) No Idea, but I would refer to the rarity of it in the region.
| Nosforontu |
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Introduced in Adventurer's Armory, was a pricing for slaves.
It as follows:
Slave, common 75 gp
Slave, hard labor 100 gp
Slave, household 50 gp
Slave, slip (halfling) 100 gp
Slave, specialized 500 gp1) How does one determine stats?
2) How does one determine which category a slave falls into?
3)How does race effect price?
4) How do you price non-player race, and non-humanoid slaves?
2) My take on Category classification is as following
Slave Common: A slave judged to have no really distinguishable positive characteristics or is being sold for simple tasks (the equivalent of a modern cash register job). Essentially a slave being sold because someone has need of a warm body for a task but the task itself doesn't require much in the way of training.
Slave, Hard Labor: Typically a slave with above average Strength and probably Constitution (for endurance), though weaker slaves could be used instead if you do not mind the reduced productivity and replacement costs. Hard Labor Slaves can also be used as a way to get rid of or punish undesirable population units. For instance enemy soldiers captured from battle might be sold into Hard Labor as a precaution, as may be political enemies who do not quite warrant death.
Slave Household: Probably at least an average charisma score as this is a slave that you and your family are going to be interacting with frequently. A household slave is going to at least in part be define by their personality. A docile or timid personality is more likely to be selected as a household slave rather than an aggressive slave that hasnt been broken yet. Overall a slave is more likely to be selected as a household slave if it has a professional skill such as cooking, sewing or something similar.
Slave Specialized: Essentially what it says a slave that is not easily replaced. An especially beautiful/Handsome slave for brothels, a slave with low PC levels (I suspect that Bards as entertainment, or Fighters as bodyguards would be popular). Other popular choices would be Experts who could train your children, Adepts who could provide low level healing on demand and the like.
| Azure_Zero |
A Duergar.
If truly interested, see here for more details.
again guessing things out.
The character given PC class levels is a specialized slave.
Race: Duergar, so X1.25 the price (not too rare, bad rep, but tend to be lawful)
So 750gp
blackbloodtroll
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blackbloodtroll wrote:A Duergar.
If truly interested, see here for more details.
again guessing things out.
The character given PC class levels is a specialized slave.
Race: Duergar, so X1.25 the price (not too rare, bad rep, but tend to be lawful)So 750gp
Oh no.
That's the PC buying the slaves. I was confused by your question.| Azure_Zero |
Azure_Zero wrote:blackbloodtroll wrote:A Duergar.
If truly interested, see here for more details.
again guessing things out.
The character given PC class levels is a specialized slave.
Race: Duergar, so X1.25 the price (not too rare, bad rep, but tend to be lawful)So 750gp
Oh no.
That's the PC buying the slaves. I was confused by your question.
That's Ok, I was confused myself.
So your character is buying slaves in a LoF campaign,
what type, stats, and race are the slave(s)?.
blackbloodtroll
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My DM will be wary of anything "customized", so I guess I would go with the bestiary Aasimar, seen here.
| Kain Darkwind |
City of Brass has the price of a slave being their HD x Cha X Str score in BP, which is 5gp. Obviously that's not official rules, but using that as a base line. Assuming NPC levels are half that, I'll use gp instead of BP for a commoner NPC class.
Household slave = 1HD x 7 Str x 7 Cha = 49 GP.
Hard labor = 1HD x 12 Str x 8 Cha = 96 gp
Common slave = 1HD x 11 Str x 7 Cha = 77 gp.
Not exact, but close enough. But since it doesn't say, I would assume a 20th level fighter with base 18 in all stats. Perfectly obedient to your character.
Edit: And didn't see the thread necro. Curses.
| Kain Darkwind |
Still an interesting topic. Related to NPC level demographics which are a pet peeve of mine. Unless it's anadolescent/young adult I would assume 2-3 levels in an NPC class. Higher levels if older.
Well, I agree, I tend to assign 1 NPC level per 10 years of age on average. However, I was just trying to reconcile the PF prices with the City of Brass ones...it is entirely likely that PF folks pay for cheap slaves.