in my current campaign, we're selling a dead body's organs to the black market and I want to attempt and calculate the price of the individual organs. I'm doing this by taking the price of human organ prices that exist in our real world and then converting the amount to USD to gp. but I was wondering if there are any extra value on a gnomes organs because of the age they live to.
Well, gnome organs would probably be smaller, as they are a small race. However, if they are rare in your world, then I would raise the price. I would maybe increase organ prices up until they are about 100, then have it stay at that price till they are 150, then have it decrease. So the price would either be a little more or a little less than human organs. But the real question is: why are you selling Gnome organs!?!?!
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I'd say maybe homebrew that only certain organs are compatible with certain creatures (orc organs are too big for halflings etc), and I think maybe it should just be based on poundage, and also demand.
The reason for the market is the important thing. Why are organs wanted? Bait? Cloning? Flesh golems?
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This was not the conversation that I thought was going to come up when I saw the title of this thread. That said, I think any non-human organ would probably be worth at least a little bit more, if only because humans are the most common race so logically their organs would have less value
This was not the conversation that I thought was going to come up when I saw the title of this thread. That said, I think any non-human organ would probably be worth at least a little bit more, if only because humans are the most common race so logically their organs would have less value
In that case, Humans might be more desired because of the versatility of Human physiology. (+1 to everything or, optionally, any qualified feat +1 to 2 stats. Half races according to XGtE are always part Human. XGtE > Chapter 1 > This Is Your Life > Origins > Non-Human Parents. Even the Half-Drow variant requires a Half-Elf or fully Human parent, not a fully Elf parent.) This strongly suggests that Human organs are the most compatible with many situations. This might be a situations where the general supply and demand effectively cancel each other.
It would fall back to the specific scenario on the purpose of the acquisition, which does not fix the supply/demand issue. The need for specific racial organs would likely be the outlier and the supply would be low. Why harvest organs nobody wants most of the time? The one-off job for a specific organ would probably fetch a higher price, but the market in total wouldn't be good.
If you want to build a campaign around it, I would focus on an aberration in the illegal organ market that draws attention - huge number of Human organs or a significant demand for a specific Non-Human organ.
If someone is careless enough to draw attention to the trade, they would probably be desperate. Then again, there could be a secondary reason such as pseudoscience cures for some affliction spreading across a region where baking food in Tiefling bladders is supposed to purify the food - and, of course, it doesn't but hysteria being hysteria and all that...
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in my current campaign, we're selling a dead body's organs to the black market and I want to attempt and calculate the price of the individual organs. I'm doing this by taking the price of human organ prices that exist in our real world and then converting the amount to USD to gp. but I was wondering if there are any extra value on a gnomes organs because of the age they live to.
Well, gnome organs would probably be smaller, as they are a small race. However, if they are rare in your world, then I would raise the price. I would maybe increase organ prices up until they are about 100, then have it stay at that price till they are 150, then have it decrease. So the price would either be a little more or a little less than human organs. But the real question is: why are you selling Gnome organs!?!?!
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I'd say maybe homebrew that only certain organs are compatible with certain creatures (orc organs are too big for halflings etc), and I think maybe it should just be based on poundage, and also demand.
money would be the easy answer,but trying to figure out an answer for this has been really fun and i want to start trying more things like it
The reason for the market is the important thing. Why are organs wanted? Bait? Cloning? Flesh golems?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
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“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
This was not the conversation that I thought was going to come up when I saw the title of this thread. That said, I think any non-human organ would probably be worth at least a little bit more, if only because humans are the most common race so logically their organs would have less value
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In that case, Humans might be more desired because of the versatility of Human physiology. (+1 to everything or, optionally, any qualified feat +1 to 2 stats. Half races according to XGtE are always part Human. XGtE > Chapter 1 > This Is Your Life > Origins > Non-Human Parents. Even the Half-Drow variant requires a Half-Elf or fully Human parent, not a fully Elf parent.) This strongly suggests that Human organs are the most compatible with many situations. This might be a situations where the general supply and demand effectively cancel each other.
It would fall back to the specific scenario on the purpose of the acquisition, which does not fix the supply/demand issue. The need for specific racial organs would likely be the outlier and the supply would be low. Why harvest organs nobody wants most of the time? The one-off job for a specific organ would probably fetch a higher price, but the market in total wouldn't be good.
If you want to build a campaign around it, I would focus on an aberration in the illegal organ market that draws attention - huge number of Human organs or a significant demand for a specific Non-Human organ.
If someone is careless enough to draw attention to the trade, they would probably be desperate. Then again, there could be a secondary reason such as pseudoscience cures for some affliction spreading across a region where baking food in Tiefling bladders is supposed to purify the food - and, of course, it doesn't but hysteria being hysteria and all that...
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.