Price of magic items

[BigDaddy]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Of course demand varies, based on all the factors you listed and more. To take it even farther, you might give items away to an ally who you needed to keep alive against a mutual enemy and you might refuse to sell some things to other nations at any price.

That doesn't mean there isn't common usage under most circumstances. Is there a general consensus for what is considered fair compensation for mage/hammer time?

I haven't found one, but you can use blood hunting as a baseline... If you have a three path mage (of the same path, not your weiner 3 1path mages), you can assume his turn is worth 8 blood slaves. A 1 path mage is only woth 2 or 3. So the big guy is worth a couple extra gems or more and the little ones are really only worth an extra gem on top of other profits.