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Platonix 10-27-06, 05:11 PM	For reasons which are my own, I am making an arcane spellcaster who does not have a real, honest-to-goodness spell component pouch or the Eschew Materials feat. She buys material components separately (and actually knows very few spells that have material components rather than foci.) No, she doesn't know fireball, so she's not buying or carrying a little vial of bat guano. One of the spells I'm going to want to cast regularly has the material component of a handful of copper powder, and I have decided it's reasonable for her to have a big container of copper powder stored in her room. I'm talking volumes that actually merit a price check. According to the PHB, copper is usually worth 5 sp per pound, but I'm assuming that's solid copper rather than powder (I'm not sure if that affects anything...maybe powder would cost marginally more for the labor of grinding it, or less because it's not as useful for currency or smithing?) I'm also unsure how many "handfuls" I should consider 1 pound of copper powder to equal. Can anyone offer some insight?
tarkin 10-27-06, 05:14 PM	I would just use the 5 sp/pound and say she gets her stuff powdered for free because she buys in bulk. It's not that big a deal. A cubic foot of copper weighs 559 lbs. A cubic foot has 12*12*12 cubic inches, or 1728 So a cubic inch of copper, which sounds like a large handfull to me, weighs about .32 lbs. I would probably say a small handfull was 0.1 lbs.