Curious about turning the wholesale trade prices from page 291 into market prices?
Curious about turning the wholesale trade prices from page 291 into market prices? Well boy oh boy have I got a sheet for you!
I calculated (with rounding in some places) the price-per-pound of each entry with a 75% markup so that merchants could get their cut. Simply multiply by 2 or 3 for prices where Demanded/Needed. There's also a 15% markup tab, which is more in line with modern grocery stores.
Dye and opium got weight exceptions. Some quick research says you can dye 4 shirts with 1 oz of dye, so I calculated that one by the ounce instead of the pound.
Opium was a toughie -- I was able to find some info saying it was historically concentrated to double strength and rolled into a pea-sized ball, so I fudged it as 1 gram per dose and multiplied the cost by two to account for the finished product.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lhjteO3MVTxyFUxR4nx0c5OQe508elzyIRFopcms95c/edit?usp=sharing
I calculated (with rounding in some places) the price-per-pound of each entry with a 75% markup so that merchants could get their cut. Simply multiply by 2 or 3 for prices where Demanded/Needed. There's also a 15% markup tab, which is more in line with modern grocery stores.
Dye and opium got weight exceptions. Some quick research says you can dye 4 shirts with 1 oz of dye, so I calculated that one by the ounce instead of the pound.
Opium was a toughie -- I was able to find some info saying it was historically concentrated to double strength and rolled into a pea-sized ball, so I fudged it as 1 gram per dose and multiplied the cost by two to account for the finished product.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lhjteO3MVTxyFUxR4nx0c5OQe508elzyIRFopcms95c/edit?usp=sharing
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ReplyDeleteA 5-lb brick of cheese in Yoon-Suin costs 15 SP, more than twice the cost in the Western provinces (default Labyrinth Lord prices). In the Yellow City, you can expect to pay as much as 45 SP for the local cheese! This makes cheese imports from across the sea a lucrative business, especially for homesick travelers who won't mind a markup so long as it's cheaper than the local stuff.
At 19 CP per pound, wheat is fairly expensive. A bushel (60 pounds) of wheat can be milled into enough flour to make 180 half-pound loaves of whole grain bread, with each loaf then costing 6 or 7 CP -- 3 or more times as much as in the West, before the Yellow City markup. At 1 pound of grain per gallon of beer, fermented beverages in the Yellow City are actually not much more than they would be elsewhere, which is a relief to visiting sailors.
Garlic, on the other hand, is bountiful in Yoon-Suin. Where in the West you can pay upwards of 5 gold pieces (!!!) for 3 cloves, you can find it in Yoon-Suin for 3 SP by the pound, 9 SP per pound in the Yellow City. While superstitious Westerners view it as a cure-all and undead-repellant, in Yoon-Suin it is just a pungent spice. Watchful slug oligopolists may take note of the prolific amount of garlic being purchased at the docks and move to corner the imports from Druk Yul and the Hundred Kingdoms.
Love it. Thanks for this. I tried at the time to make prices for "Western" type goods expensive, but I probably filled in that table in about 2013 and now can't remember the rationale for a lot of it.
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