>one piece of paper costs as much as two ten feet ladders

>>51422497
Welcome to the pseudo-medieval era, where producing paper without automation is a bitch.

>>51422497
>D&D

>>51422497

Paper, not parchment or scrolls, but actual modern thin paper was extremely luxurious and expensive in more primitive eras.

>>51422497
Wood literally grows on trees and there was an abundance of it. Paper on the other hand was a big fucking deal and was expensive to make until the 1800s.

Also it's not really a "piece" of paper, but a very large sheet.

>>51422497
at least they fixed the 10 foot ladder to pole exploit.

>>51423626
It's not really an exploit. I'm questioning more the fact that a pole weighs less than a third of a ladder.

>>51423695
the exploit was that in an older edition (3.x i think) a ladder was less than twice the value of a pole, so if you had a dm who did everything by the book you could get infinite money by just buying ladders and breaking them into 2 poles to sell.

>>51423695
>I'm questioning more the fact that a pole weighs less than a third of a ladder.
the rungs have weight as well.

>>51423763
This operates on the assumption that:
>Merchants have infinite money
And
>Merchants want hundreds, if not thousands of poles

>>51423828

Yep, it's a "this is your brain on videogames" problem.

>>51423848
Also implies that they have hundreds if not thousands of ladders. Not to mention that ladders tend to not be "poles" in the first place

>>51423763
This is such a stupid idea, I love that it got popularized so much despite that.

>go to store
>buy 4 pack of canned green beans
>they only cost the price of 3
>return each can individually
>infinite money!!!

>>51423896
Whelp, people on /tg/ making fun of my day job.

>>51422497
I can go into a shop today and buy two ladders with one piece of paper today.

What is this wizardry?

>>51423896
You laugh but this is actually possible to do in real life.

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>>51425212
"Can I see your receipt, sir?"
"CURSES!! FOILED AGAIN!!"

>>51423626
It was never an exploit.
The ladder is made of wood, the pole of iron.

>>51425227

I had a kek, good sir.

But you can haggle the crap out of plenty of places, they want happy customers more than anything. Hell, once when I was broke and hadn't eaten for like two days I called a pizza store and said they owed me a pizza, actually recieved one from them.

>>51425922
in most edditions the pole and ladder are both of unspecified material.

>>51426377
In most editions the weight for the ladder would be that of a wooden ladder, while the weight of the pole would be that of an iron pole.

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>>51426462

>>51424056
underrated