Statue price question

[Mr.$mith]

Short version: the player steering the ship in the town building wants a statue, but the rooms and teams section says the price is just for the area not the statue. Not sure why it says statue then says it doesn't include the price of statue.

I figure it would be 4 goods and 1 labor and take a couple of weeks for someone to craft what he's looking for. Does that seem right, maybe scale the earnings potential up a bit to reflect the additional cost to get the statue build.

Longer versions: this guy pretry much does all the party collaboration for how they are building up their town and we were joking about an NPC they had resurrected. That it would be funny if he had a statue of his brawler holding a baby cherub version of the NPC to put outside the arena hes building. It was so funny we ended up going with it, but then I saw they could make like 100 statues with the current price listed in the rooms and teams price, buf then noticed it doesn't include the cost of a statue. I tried googling the boards but only found someone trying to make animated golems cheaply and get by their DM, then someone suggestions it was like art work for value. I usually just give out gold and gems, then got side tracked a bit trying to calculate the weight of a marble statue, finding the price of marble in pathfinder, then remembered I used to get pretty great help from the boards. So here I am, just trying to make a decent price for a funny rifing joke we had.

[Mark Hoover 330]

On the SRD, under Equipment; Furniture, it lists a small stone statue as 300 lbs. Under Equipment; Trade Goods it lists marble at 5GP/LB. So a small statue, just in materials alone, would cost 1500 GP if made from solid marble. Going by the same tables, a small metal statue, made of copper, would weigh 420 lbs but cost only 210 GP for material alone.

In short, statues are heavy and expensive.

But then, what if the PC wants cast bronze instead? Start with bronze, a metal not listed in trade goods, then instead of the thing being solid all the way through its cast over ceramic and ultimately hollow inside. It would weigh less and likely not be the same cost as copper.

In the end I'd say make up a number you think the PC could afford but would be steep. Let the PCs decide how important the statue is and if they want to somehow defray the costs by spending Goods, Labor, Influence or even Magic capital. They might also spend their own time and money creating the statue if they have the right skills.

[Diego Rossi]

To make a marble statue you need to start with a block of marble that is larger than the final statue form, so I suggest a material cost of about 3,000 gp for the marble alone, then you have to pay the sculptor work.

Bronze should cost as much or slightly more than copper. Bronze statues normally are hollow. To make them you generally make a model using a cheap material, then make a mold and fuse the statue. Again, the main cost should be the artist's cost.

My best reply is to decide how good you want the statue to be, then ballpark its cost.

You can find some price for modern bronze statues here: Salvadori Arte.

A reproduction of a classical statue cost around 15,000 €, about 3,000 gp (my group has reached a consensus that the purchasing power of a GP is approximately 50 €).

[Mr.$mith]

Thanks for the advice I appreciate it! Ill see if going for a metal statue works for him, they have a lot good to work with, trying to get the campaign to be more of they acquire goods and then build up this town and then use the town to craft the things they need. Along with finding treasure from people they beat, just tying something different then mountains of gold from defeated foes.