No, I know the calculations. It's still limited by money available and by how common the mages are -- each an individual GM choice. If they leave it "mages are as common as those with the intellect" and "132000 gold is easy to come by, even though that's FOUR TONS OF GOLD, worth about a hundred million dollars in today's money", then the world D&D shows is so nonsensical as to be not worth even thinking of. And I don't. If it makes that little sense, there's factors that they're not showing to make it work.
In mine, for instance, a silver piece PER MEAL? Commoners can't afford that. Hell, the middle-class artisans would find that pricey. Even a copper per day isn't affordable by lower classes; a copper will get you a room in a cheap inn, and, well, the commoners can't afford to stay in inns very often.
Resurrection/Raise dead is another. "Order of the Stick" plays around with this, but also shows the usual solution: if the soul doesn't want to COME back, you can throw all the Resurrections at it you want, you get nothing. Same for Speak With Dead; if the soul, or the soul's owner (Deity who took the soul to its realm) don't want to play, "I'm sorry; your call cannot be completed as dialed."
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In mine, for instance, a silver piece PER MEAL? Commoners can't afford that. Hell, the middle-class artisans would find that pricey. Even a copper per day isn't affordable by lower classes; a copper will get you a room in a cheap inn, and, well, the commoners can't afford to stay in inns very often.
Resurrection/Raise dead is another. "Order of the Stick" plays around with this, but also shows the usual solution: if the soul doesn't want to COME back, you can throw all the Resurrections at it you want, you get nothing. Same for Speak With Dead; if the soul, or the soul's owner (Deity who took the soul to its realm) don't want to play, "I'm sorry; your call cannot be completed as dialed."