Clan Dagger

[Joe Mucchiello]

Why does it cost 25 sp to buy a dagger you receive during your coming of age rite? 20-30 years could easily pass between the rite and your adventurer career starting.

[Scythia]

See, my Elven Curve blade belonged to my mother, and her mother before her. My character was bequeathed it as a child 70 years ago. I shouldn't have to pay for it.

That's why. You can create an in-game backstory reason that your character should/could have nearly anything. Equipment costs exist to create appropriate first level balance. If it's something you're sure they owned for years, don't think of it as them buying it right before the game, think of it as that being part of the total value of their belongings.

[Joe Mucchiello]

The Dwarf ancestry explicitly says you receive your Clan Dagger when you come of age. I didn't make this up. Paizo did.

[JDLPF]

Then you get it for free, but your clan expects you you contribute 25 sp to help craft a new one for the next generation of your clan.

[PossibleCabbage]

It mostly just feels odd that one's clan dagger, which is of little value (beyond its craftsmanship) to anybody who is not a member of that Dwarf clan, costs more than a greatsword or a heavy steel shield.

[JDLPF]

To be fair, paying for overpriced garbage simply because it identifies you as part of a certain clique is the entire reason for the fashion industry's existence.

I choose to believe the Clan Dagger is a Dwarven equivalent of a Loius Vuitton handbag.

[Kennethray]

It also says it has a gem in the pommel. Maybe its meant more as a badge or key then a true weapon, seeing how the classes that would use it as a main weapon are not celebrated by the Dwarf community. Or I could be talking out my butt. It's fluff.

K-Ray

[Joe Mucchiello]

It's fluff. But it's fluff with an entry in the weapon table.