Shattered Kingdoms

Same with me, Juggernaut. I also wish they'd take those ciggarrettes out of the game. Those are just spoilers for people who like the medieval setting of SK. I can live with the pipe and tobbacco but I wouldn't mind seeing those removed as well.

Pipes and smoking have been around for a long long time.

Take the cigarettes and cigars out.

Also, insurance is stupid and doesn't fit in this setting. Just make it so that store bought stuffs is easier to come by. This inflation stuff is frickin insane in places where the economy has no HOPE of becoming balanced.

People buy and sell things in Nerina. Why? Because that is where the brass and tanso and staves and vials and scrolls and et cetera is. Why don't people spend money in Menegroth? Because the shops are unbalanced.

Fix the economy and the prices will stabilize.

Just for the record, although cigarettes are indeed too modern for the setting, that doesn't go for cigars too.

Just a quick reference:
The History of the Cigar

You all are aware that there's gunpowder and soda in the game, right?

regarding gunpowder, it could be used for... canons? Who said they did not have such in times of yore? Do not restric yourself in us history, it is too brief anyhow. The chinese have had gunpowder since ... ancient times, they used it as an explosive substance to their elixirs of immortality. And even in SKs, I think it is only related to GNOMES, who are supposed to be magical inventors anyhow. As for soda, I can only assume it is one imm's bad joke, and however humorous it may be, it can not set a rule.