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Have you noticed the easter egg "It's been ten years... Griffith" at the beginning of ep. 2?
My players have a human sized adamantine cage because I let them draw from a nerfed deck of many things. Yeah, yeah I know, but I read through it and didn't blink because how much could adamantine cost per pound? like 3 times steel? So what?
Well no, turns out I'm getting values between 250 and 1340 gp per POUND for the stuff. The cage I described has to be a couple hundred pounds, meaning they have a minimum of 62,500 gold on their hands.
Is this right?
Obviously I have to backtrack now and say that the cage wasn't pure adamantine, or change the cost, or something. Is there anything else I can do to salvage this?
Edit: Thank all of you for the feedback!The group is 6 players, 7th level, using ABP except that they still have to buy weapons and armor, so they are at 70% of WBL.
A 60 lb cage vs a 250+ lb cage makes a big difference. I think what I'm going to do is work backwards from how much I think is reasonable for them to have. 6k each sounds fine, so
> 6,000 x 6 = 36,000 gold
> 36,000 gold / 300 gold/lb = 120 lbs of cage
The setting is a pretty authoritarian empire, so they would definitely be interested in a medium humanoid sized adamantine cage, and the group just (reluctantly) accepted a job from the secret police/inquisition. But it might take some time for them to get the money together to buy the cage since they're not in a capital city.
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