If it helps it takes 1 day for one peasant to cut down a cord of wood (approximately 2 tons) for essentially 2cp in labor. the rest of the cost would depend on the rarity of the wood (teak is worth more than pine), local scarcity, and opportunity costs (what else could the land be used for besides growing wood) in a frontier situation where land is being cleared for development that might be the entire price of the wood- on the frontier. Beyond that it comes into questions of transportation costs and merchant's markups. So base price for common wood would be about 1cp/ton.

Hey, 

Like others pointed out, a very detailed price list for mundane everyday items is hardly worthwhile in DnD usually. But I personally like to have a grasp of what life is like for the commoner and have some coherency between magical and mundane prices, even though mundane item prices quickly become obsolete as adventurers get all that Lewt Mony. 

I made a comprehensive economy overhaul for DnD a while back. Not sure how finished the final pdf is, and no time to proof read right now, but here it is: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2xmD1G0W2uRXHEXuTUDIBwy0N0S5cxy/view?usp=sharing

What is this overhaul?

1. It is not a price list, as in it doesn't have a ton of specific items with prices.

2. Instead, it ties together the prices of different types of goods and items in a somewhat coherent way. 

3. This will hopefully help a DM get a picture of the general relations of goods and economic levels -> easier to come up with a price that is within a reasonable and coherent range. 

4. It simplifies the prices of magic items, wizard spells and consumables with price ranges based on Rarity. An item's price doesn't fit the power level? Change the rarity!

5. It should fix some of the problems that exist in other overhauls like sane magic item prices. Mainly because it doesn't provide a hard price list, so it's more flexible. It will probably bring problems of its own, though. 

I hope this helps someone. It served us well in a recent 3 DM rotation. :) 

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I know people are hesitant to open these links, and I understand. But if someone does: The link goes to a pdf file called "dnd prices by serloxy".

The account behind that google drive folder is my RP Project Account that I use only for public RP related stuff, like sharing public homebrew files etc. and handling my Worldbuilder Portfolio blog (a fun little archive project that I often forget about. :D)

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I'm not an expert on medieval economy structures, so I didn't aim for perfect historical accuracy. Instead I aimed for increased coherency. :) The prices should reasonable fit into most medieval settings. 

Please can we stop the argument, this is Dnd a game of infinite possibilities and adventure, if there isn’t a guide in the books and rules, then make it up as you want, why do you think we invented Homebrew?

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Please can we stop the argument, this is Dnd a game of infinite possibilities and adventure, if there isn’t a guide in the books and rules, then make it up as you want, why do you think we invented Homebrew?

 This thread is almost 4 years old. It was bumped in 2021 and 2023. So I think any argument there was, if any, is long resolved. However, in general, world economy is up the DM. Some care about details, some don't. Some specify these things, some don't. If a DM wants some numbers, there are resources available.

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Please can we stop the argument, this is Dnd a game of infinite possibilities and adventure, if there isn’t a guide in the books and rules, then make it up as you want, why do you think we invented Homebrew?

Oh no, what have you done! 😂 Your very wish was already true, as this thread already died months ago. Now your reply brought it back to life. 😄

Quite ironic. I assume you found it through a google search or something? 😄