The Order of the Stick Megathread

[Meister]

20,000 GP, as long as you don't mind my children starving.

Really this is probably one of the oldest points about RPGs you can possibly make - that merchants regularly and routinely handle sums that most people in the world would consider plain unreal - but it's rarely delivered this well in D&D media. Many comics would waste an entire episode on making that point and do nothing more than have their characters stand in a shop going "Have You Ever Noticed..."