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8:03 PM

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Q: How does a Rogue's Expertise feature interact with the Phantom subclasses's "Whispers of the Dead"?

The Rogue's Phantom subclass from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything has the following feature at 3rd level: Whispers of the Dead Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can choose one skill or tool proficiency that you lack and gain it... You lose this proficiency when you use this feature to...

AncientSwordRage

Something to do with Street car named desire (for the similarly named character?)

Thomas Markov

got a spam on this question rpg.stackexchange.com/q/57808/62294

MikeQ

Eh, Stella!

Thomas Markov

Same spam has hit that question twice, I've protected it.

Something about cars and explosions attracts the car inspection spam bot.

GcL

8:36 PM

@ThomasMarkov Grade Expectations: A plus sized essay.

AncientSwordRage

8:52 PM

@GcL 👀

GcL

Could also go with "A non plussed essay" but the modern use of the term has utterly confused its meaning.

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Q: As an Order of the Scribes Wizard, can I cast a Psychic Fireball at Level 7?

According to the Awakened Spellbook feature of the Order of Scribes school of magic presented in Tasha's: When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type with a type that appears in another spell in your spell book, which magically alters the spells fo...

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RevenantBacon

Hey, can anyone point me to a resource for designing a realistic medieval economy for a 5e city/county/etc?

Or should I drop over to World Building?

GcL

That's probably a world building exercise. I did something similar for Eberron a few years ago. I calculated that an established single family farmstead could make 20gp in a year. So priced everything accordingly.

You could do similar based on the labor prices for the unskilled and skilled laborers by multiplying by 300. Unskilled 2cp/dat * 300 = 6gp/year skilled is 2sp/day *300 = 60gp/year

Thomas Markov

9:07 PM

We closed a question like that recently

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Q: Is this question about an Ordinary Items Database an off-topic tool recommendation question?

Here is the question: Looking For Historically Accurate Ordinary Items Database For Dungeon-Stocking Tool recommendation questions are off-topic on rpg.se. Is this question a tool recommendation question?

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RevenantBacon

9:28 PM

@GcL I don't think farming is unskilled labor. Unskilled labor is like moving things from point A to point B or digging ditches. Farm work requires at least some knowledge

GcL

@RevenantBacon Farming also isn't compensated in the same way. As I figured it, a farm produced profit in a year of about what four unskilled laborers would.

RevenantBacon

This thread on GITP goes in to a lot of detail

Carcer

@RevenantBacon running a farm requires well, skills at running a farm

GcL

@RevenantBacon Those read like 3.5 edition considerations.

RevenantBacon

I figure that a farm would produce produce (heh) generating a profit of around what a single, or pair of, skilled laborers could make. They aren't just growing corn and wheat after all, there's also animals for meat, which has a much higher value

GcL

9:31 PM

I guess that depends on what century you want to model you're farming economy after.

RevenantBacon

Hmm, that's true too

GcL

Farmers generally weren't known for having as much money as stone masons, coopers, falconer, nor tailors.

RevenantBacon

That's because most of their "wealth" was tied up in physical assets.

The herd of sheep, the flock of chickens, the acres of corn, wheat, squash.

erm, scratch the veggies, that bit doesn't make much sense.

It's the animals mostly

GcL

I would eschew trying to calculate capital assets of various classes unless your players are going to inherit or otherwise obtain.

RevenantBacon

A single sheep or cow is worth quite a bit of coin, but you don't sell the whole animal, you keep it and sell the bonus product that it produces, the wool, the milk, eggs from the chickens, etc.

Plus, the animals have a higher upkeep cost that a set of smiths tools

Anyways, point is that the farmer likely has just as much wealth as the cobbler, but he also likely has higher expenses, and some of that wealth is tied to a secondary resource.

GcL

9:46 PM

In a year, how much gp would you estimate a farm generates as profit?

Thomas Markov

11:03 PM

How much is 1 chicken worth?

GcL

Wholesale or adventurer markup?

Thomas Markov

Wholesale. We’re gonna be making a lot of them.

GcL

Lets say 3 for a copper

or two for a copper. I'm better with twos

Thomas Markov

A properly outfitted breeder and broiler farm could reliably grow 22,000 chickens a month.

That’s 1 houses of breeders and 1 house of broilers.

GcL

That sounds like an industrial age scale

Thomas Markov

11:07 PM

It is, but all of the technology is there because of regulations. It’s still entirely feasible with pre-industrial structures.

TheDragonOfFlame

Something funny is that the 5e spell Negative Energy Flood from XGtE reanimated any creature killed by it as a medium humanoid zombie

I play at an epic tier monster killing game for stress relief, and killed Tiamat with it

Tiamat morphed into a zombie

Thomas Markov

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Q: Does a size large or larger creature killed by Negative Energy Flood rise as a medium sized zombie?

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GcL

@ThomasMarkov I don't understand "technology is there because of regulations". Technology exists because of regulations?

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Q: Is this addition to the spell Negative Energy Flood balanced?

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@GcL I mean that most of the modern technology that goes into growing thousands of chickens is used for compliance with animal welfare regulations. Things like temperature, light, and humidity control.

GcL

@ThomasMarkov How much manpower would be required to produce 22k chickens per month without industrial equipment and conveniences.

Thomas Markov

11:10 PM

@TheDragonOfFlame I Homebrewed a fix to negative energy flood

@GcL once everything is in place a family could run a 1 house operation. The only issue of scale would be transportation.

GcL

@ThomasMarkov How big is this family? Just moving 22k chickens in 30 days seems daunting.

Thomas Markov

Growing chickens is hard work but it hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. It’s processing that has changed so significantly.

GcL

Is there a historical example of a single family farm producing thousands of chickens a month?

MikeQ

Maybe something involving wild magic?

Or a swarmkeeper ranger farmer with a swarm of chickens?

GcL

Appears it started to become popular after the first world war: fwi.co.uk/livestock/poultry/poultry-production-through-the-ages

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Q: Do my players know the specifics of an enemy's attack

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