> > In RQ1 & 2 the Lunar was valued at about the price of a moderate
meal...
> > about $4 in the '70s, closer to $6 or $8 now.
> > In RQ3 the Lunar was revalued to be 1 day's wages for a physical
> > laborer. This is more in line with the biblical value of the silver
coin of
> > that period which might be used to pay just this kind of laborer. The
> > equivalent in today's money is in the neighborhood of $40, so there is
about
> > a 10:1 conversion between game versions.
>
> Unfortunately, this is dragging modern socio-economics into it, and
since
> modern economics of any sort are based on Nothing Much In Particular,
> I think it distorts your conclusions. I don't believe that price of
> moderate meal, and daily wage are in a 10:1 ratio in any comparable
> culture.
Alex, I'm sorry, but you -really- missed the point of the discussion.
The question was how to correlate the price charts in RQ2 to those in RQ3,
and a 10:1 ratio -is- a fair rule of thumb. It may not be perfect, but it
puts you in the neighborhood. All of the examples were to demonstrate how
to make a 'quick and dirty' price chart of your own.
Bob Stancliff
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #206