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Check it out:

http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/07/paper ... s-finally/

angelfromanotherpin wrote:Matt Riggsby wrote a bunch of articles about low-tech economies and how certain fantasy elements interacted with them. Should I see if I can dig those up?

Yes, please.

FrankTrollman wrote:

Surgo wrote:Said elaboration has been done by Frank *so* many times on this board it ought to be a sticky.

You know what? A "D&D economies don't make sense" essay for stickitude is not a bad plan. I should work on one of those.

My Search-Fu is weak....

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