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The Rimejaw armor requires three winter wolf pelts to create. Do these count towards the monetary value of crafting materials or are they an additional (valueless/worthless) crafting material? How much are they worth? E.g. my players have three winter wolf pelts, how much more money do they need to spend to craft the armor?
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It's entirely up to the GM, and since it appears you are the GM, you can decide.
You can probably consider the three pelts as the required raw materials assuming they didn't gain any other treasures from defeating the wolves. Just make sure you aren't inflating your PCs treasures too much by giving raw materials too much value.
I generally look at the treasure by level per encounter table
If I'm doing a few encounters where there is no treasure then I normally let the players skin for valuable pelts, with an eye to balancing the treasure table. Except for hydras, they saturated that market....
So for your question I'd check out what sort of encounter that was with winter wolves and use that as a guide to the value of the pelts.
I think Mark Seifter made some useful third party rules about this in battlezoo.
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Ah yes, the Schrodinger's treasure value problem of creatures with valuable material components...
You must assume and plan for every such creature with specific valuable body parts as BOTH having those as part of their treasure reward budget and level equivalent ACTUAL treasure based on if there is a character with sufficient knowledge of the value of those body parts, training enough to skillfully harvest them and the skinning knife/tools to functionally gather them.
If your group doesn't know about this will not be harvesting those materials you need to award them sufficient treasure or coin for the encounter. If they DO know about it but can't properly harvest it without at least damaging and reducing the value of the materials you need to have a partial treasure reward/hoard for them to discover. If they are fully able to leverage those and actually DO SO then the prepared hidden treasure/coin needs to simply never have existed in the first place.