So I've spent several hours scouring the net to find the price of cigars in Pathfinder and the closest I’ve gotten is that the Arms & Armory guide has a price but NOWHERE does anyone say what that price is. Does anyone know? I’ve got the Ultimate Equipment Guide and it lists the price for a pound of tobacco as a trade good but nothing about cigars. Also in no reference that I’ve been able to locate is the price for a pipe listed? Please help.
Why do you need an answer? Just make something up.
You know the price for a pound of tobacco. Just find out the average weight of a cigar, and work it out. Add a little to it to cover the cost of rolling it.
As for a pipe, do the same. The quality and material of a pipe varies, so would the cost. A common, simple pipe probably isn't more then a few coppers.
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I actually scrounged the Web for the price of tobacco and the cost of a pipe and converted it for my most recent D & D campaign. A wooden pipe works out to one gold piece, while a common clay pipe is ten silver pieces.
As for cigars, a good modern cigar can be had for as little as $2.50, with most averaging around five to seven dollars for a hand-rolled cigar. Premium cigars are eighty dollars.
-Dover
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I actually scrounged the Web for the price of tobacco and the cost of a pipe and converted it for my most recent D & D campaign. A wooden pipe works out to one gold piece, while a common clay pipe is ten silver pieces.
You realize those are the same price, right? 10 sp = 1 gp.
For a pipe the price depends on quality, decoration, etc. Its cost is likely roughly equal to "how much your PC wants to spend on a pipe"
Basically, either decide your PC wants a cheapass pipe of forgettableness and spend nothing (rolling it into your cost of living maintenance the same way you might roll in a wooden spoon to eat your food with), or a quality pipe of niceness with five gold pieces worth of quality materials and decorations (engraved ivory, fancy wood, whatever) and spend ten gold pieces, or a bejeweled pipe of ostentatiousness and spend... however much you want your pipe to be worth.
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I had a stogie-chompin' half-orc ranger in a recent campaign.
I went to buy some cigars at a local store and when I was told the price would be a gold for 20 cigars, his response was:
"What! I don't want cheap-ass cigars rolled by ham-handed peasants! Find me some REAL cigars!"
So the GM produced some cigars at 1 gold apiece.
"Now we're talking! Those are some good cigars!"
And on we went.
This goes above and beyond over thinking. I hope this question didn't arise in the middle of a session. The thought of such minutia bringing a game to a screeching halt while everyone cracks books and tablets searching for the answer to something that ultimately is of no consequence, makes me shiver.
And a $2.50 cigar is a crappy cigar.
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I was looking in my copy of Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog and it gives the price of Nexalan cigars at 10 gp each.
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I was looking in my copy of Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog and it gives the price of Nexalan cigars at 10 gp each.
Dayum! Now we're talking! I want some of THOSE cigars!
I would put cigars in the same price range as alcoholic drinks in Pathfinder. Some are cheap and some are very expensive.
If you want the pound of tabacco can also be used and then you roll your own with the skill Profession - Torcedor. That way they can be both GREAT and Cheap!
PS - Just did a quick google and real world cigars can sell for as much as $200,000. There are some common ones that you could actually smoke in the $50~$100+ range per cigar.
I was looking in my copy of Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog and it gives the price of Nexalan cigars at 10 gp each.
Once again Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog proves it is the best RPG supplement on the planet <3
I cheap cigar would be the price of an ale. A silver coin would fetch a superior one, but the rarest could be a gold.
I'm playing in the Pathfinder Society and it would seem that whilst fluff and character detail are not truly catered to or desired the business of minutia as far as coinage is concerned thrives. A GM solved my pipe inquiry by saying it is part of my Explorer’s Outfit. But as for consumables such as ammunition, rations, tindertwigs and cigars they must be purchased from a society sanctioned source book or chronicle sheet and hence I can’t just make them up.
As Andrew R said.
Even walk through a smoke shop (the kind focused on cigars)? The price ranges all over the place. A $3 cigar is hard to finish. You can spend ten times that (which is a fine cigar), or up to a hundred times if you look hard enough (haven't had one).
The math isn't perfect, but 1 cp = $1 is a quick conversion in a trivial affair such as this.
I'm not a regular cigar smoker, sometimes, when I got something to celebrate I enjoy one and I use cheap ones to light my fireworks. But once a friend who visited cuba was so nice as to buy me one there. The price was about 10$ if I remember right.
Man, that baby was good.
Thanks folks! In case you didn’t guess I’m new to the society and I appreciate your taking time to help me along.
So being the pit-bull of minutia that I am, I’ve spent way too many hours on the net figuring this out! So a typical rubusto/king/big stogie weighs anywhere from 8g to 13g. The cigar community is an international one hence grams. So converting pounds and ounces to grams and using 11g as my average large cigar wieght you end up with about 45 cigars per pound. With a pound of tobacco costing 5sp according to the Ultimate Equipment Guide that makes a roll your own cigar cost about 1cp each. So with labor, shipping, taxes (hawking fees and such), and the fact that it is a luxury item a ten times mark up would make 1sp each sound reasonable?
Your GM is being an idiot... just describe your character as always having a stogie in his mouth if you wish, or pull out one after "the fat lady sings" at the end of a mission... case closed.
ditto. it just doesn't matter