[Information] Hog's Emporium (Coinage, Equipment, and Price Estimates)

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Hog's Emporium
Middleside, Marketgate

Hog’s Emporium has the reputation for selling the finest traveling gear in the city. Tents, bedrolls, camping paraphernalia, rations, rope, iron spikes, ladders, lanterns, sacks, casks, waterskins, and the like can be found on the shop’s hooks, counters, shelves, and stands. Essentially a hardware store, it caters for those who enjoy or are employed in outdoor pursuits, so rangers, caravan guards, gloombuggers, and seamen are common customers as well as adventurers and explorers. The owner, Hog Brandimede is half human and half wart goblin, although almost everyone thinks he is simply a small and ugly human with a huge nose. He keeps a relatively tame short-horned ratdog as a guard dog. The ratdog is fiercely loyal to Hog, who hand-reared the creature from a small pup, after finding it in a ditch on the outskirts of Midden Ward. The ratdog no longer craves decaying flesh and instead has an almost insatiable appetite for parsnips — and exposed ankles.

Consider the tables below a guideline, rather than an actual rule. Some cityfolk are just ornery like that.

Coinage Unlike most d20 games you might be familiar with (even regular 13th Age games), we are working with an electrum-based coinage system in the Midderlands. Anywhere that the 13th Age books/SRD count something as 1 gold piece, read that as 1 electrum piece. Tables have been reworked below for everyone's sanity. In the Midderlands, one platinum piece (pp) equals 5 gold pieces. One gold piece (gp) equals 2 electrum pieces. One electrum piece (ep) equals 10 silver pieces. One silver piece (sp) equals 10 copper pieces (cp). These coins are colloquially referred to as platinum fivers (for the five-gold ratio), gold quid (yes, we're very British for this game), electrum halfquid ("haff-quid"), silver shillings ("shillin's"), and copper halfpennies ("hayp'nees"). All coins may be ignored for a barter system, especially outside the cities, and I quote: "Note that a dirty, pox-ridden villager from Blackwych might value a Waterhorton turnip above his hefty wife and three groats" (The Midderlands, page 17).   Suggested Currency of the Midderlands Coin Name Quick Equivalent Gold Equivalent Pronunciation Copper Halfpenny 1 Copper piece 0.005 gold Hayp’nee Tin Penny 2 Copper pieces 0.01 gold - Brass Two Pence 4 Copper pieces 0.02 gold Tupp’unce Silver Shilling 1 Silver piece 0.05 gold Shillin’ Bronze Florin 2 Silver pieces 0.1 gold - Iron Twenty 4 Silver pieces 0.2 gold Twen’ee Electrum Halfquid 1 Electrum piece 0.5 gold Haff-quid Gold Quid 1 Gold piece 1 gold - Platinum Fiver 1 Platinum piece 5 gold - Middium Groat 2 Platinum pieces 10 gold - Gloomium Ingot 10 Platinum pieces 50 gold -

Equipment Price Guide Characters start with armor, weapons, and standard traveling gear; prices are included for reference. You can find arms and armor in Marketgate as well as in Bileward, but many go straight to the source smithy rather than some middleman only interested in jacking up the price for a bit more profit for themself.   Standard Traveling Gear Item Price Flint and tinderbox 1 sp Money pouch (small) 3 sp Pack/traveling satchel 1 ep Rain cloak 3 sp Road rations (5 days) 25 sp Sleeping roll 1 sp Water/wineskin or flask 7 sp   General Goods Item Price Arrows/bolts/sling bullet, each 1 sp Blanket (wool) 5 sp Candle 1 cp Chain, dwarven forged (10 ft) 5 gp Chain, iron (10 ft) 5 ep Clothing, simple 2 sp Clothing, good 1 ep Clothing, expensive 5–50 gp Clothing, rain cloak (elven) 5 ep Crowbar (iron) 3 ep Flask (crystal) 5 ep Flask (glass) 5 sp Flask (pottery) 5 cp Grappling hook (iron) 1 ep Hammer, small 3 sp Holy symbol/implement (adv) 5 gp Holy symbol/implement (chp) 50 gp Holy symbol/implement (epic) 500gp Iron spike 1 sp Lantern (common) 8 sp Lantern (hooded) 5 ep Lantern oil (4 hrs) 1 sp Magnifying glass 25 ep Mirror, large 5 ep Mirror, small 1 gp Musical instrument (intricate) 5–25 ep Musical instrument (simple) 1–5 ep Pipeweed (1 use) 2 cp Prayer book 1 gp Rope, 50 ft, elven 3 ep Rope, 50 ft, good 6 sp Rope, 50 ft, poor 2 sp Spellbook (adventurer) 5 gp Spellbook (champion) 50 gp Spellbook (epic) 500 gp Tent, large 5 ep Tent, small 1 gp Tent, wood elven 5 gp Thieves’ tools (adventurer) 1 gp Thieves’ tools (champion) 10 gp Thieves’ tools (epic) 100 gp Torch (1 hr.) 1 ep Torch (6 min) 1 sp   Mounts (including gear) Item Price Dog, guard 5 gp Dog, riding 15 ep Donkey/pack mule 5 gp Horse, riding 10 gp Horse, battle trained 40 gp Feed, per day 2–4 cp

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BILEWARD
smithys and wart-goblin-run businesses

Weapons and Armor Assume all weapon and armor prices are for average quality arms and armor. Also assume you can design your own weapon and pay ridiculous sums of coin for it. A "deal" on a dagger might see it sold for less than 1 ep, but it's anyone's bet whether the blade will hold the first time it strikes a rib.   Melee Weapons Item Price Battle gauntlets 2 gp Battleaxe 3 gp Club 5 sp Dagger/knife 1 ep Double axe 6 gp Flail 3 gp Greataxe 5 gp Greatsword 5 gp Handaxe 3 ep Longsword 7 ep Mace 5 ep Maul 5 gp Morningstar 2 gp Pick 2 gp Polearm 4 gp Rapier 5 gp Sap 5 sp Scimitar 5 ep Shortsword 2 gp Spear 1 gp Staff 1 ep Trident 2 gp Two-bladed sword 15 ep Warhammer 7 ep   Ranged Weapons Item Price Bow: Longbow 7 gp Bow: Shortbow 9 ep Crossbow: Hand crossbow 4 gp Crossbow: Light crossbow 5 gp Crossbow: Heavy crossbow 15 ep Javelin 2 ep Net, weighted 3 ep Sling 2 sp Shuriken 7 sp Throwing axe 3 ep Throwing hammer 3 ep   Armor Item Price Cloth/padded 1 ep Leather 5 gp Studded leather 15 ep Hide 5 gp Light chain 10 gp Heavy chain/ring 15 gp Scale 20 gp Half-plate 45 ep Plate 25 gp Shield 5 ep

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BROTHENWARD
food and lodging

Food and Lodging in Great Lunden Food and lodging in Great Lunden will depend entirely on where you are. Quality will vary by ward (roughly) and vendor. (N.B. At some point, food and lodging may be offered by PCs! Their price lists will likely echo the suggestions below, but they are entitled to sell what they want, to whomever they want, however they want.)   Food Item Price Road rations (1 day) 5 sp Meal, common 1 sp Meal, good 3 sp Meal, excellent 8 sp Meal, feast (for 5) 4 gp Ale/beer, poor (pitcher) 2 cp Ale/beer, good (pitcher) 6 cp Ale/beer, dwarven (pitcher) 1–3 ep Wine, poor (bottle) 4 cp Wine, good (bottle) 1 sp Wine, elven (bottle) 1–5 ep   Approx. Inn Rates (per person per day) Poor, common room 1–3 sp Good, shared room 8–14 sp Excellent, private room 2–5 ep Suite (sleeps 4 to 8) 5–20 ep   Services Item Price Bath, with servants 1 ep Bodyguard (per day) 1 gp Carriage/coach, one ride 2 sp Carriage/coach 1 gp Courier (intercity) 5 sp Courier (long distance) 5 ep Courier (urchin) 5 cp Courtesan 1 ep to 50 gp Guide, urban (per day) 1 ep Guide, wilderness (per day) 5 ep (min.) Herald, in city only 1 ep Lantern bearer, in city (per day) 5 sp Mercenary, soldier (per day) 5 ep Mercenary, thug (per day) 1 ep Moneylender (fee per 100gp) 5 gp Oracle/seer/fortune teller 5 cp to 50 gp Personal chef (per day) 1 ep Sage 5–50 ep Valet/manual laborer 5 cp to 5 ep Cleric (divine spells/rituals) varies Wizard (arcane spells/rituals) varies