50gp weighs 1lb, so that's 300lb of gold and gold is currently selling at around £20,000 per lb. To give an example, someone made a set of plate Armour for £16 6s 8d in 1374, which is apparently about £10,000 today.
Trying to compare values of money between a fantastical medieval agrarian society and a modern post industrial technological society is.doomed to failure.Īlso the prices can be insane. It also varies with location - in a desert, water would cost a fair amount, but try to to sell me water here in Wales and I'll laugh at you. A can of coke was £0.30, but is now around £1. A computer twenty years ago cost you £1,000 for a standard one, it now costs around £350. Different things have different values, and they change relative to each other as well. The problem is that the further removed from a culture and setting you are, the less meaningful it is to try and find an equivalent value. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse