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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5689264" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Eh, dozens of books from the '70s on.</p><p></p><p>My starting point is the 1e DMG and the old White Dwarf articles on Town Planner and Building a Pseudo-Medieval Society, with their 'ale standard'. I allow for inflation, the WD articles used 1 1e gp = £20, it's more like 1 4e gp = £50 now. I also look at the BECMI books (especially the Dominion Taxation rules in Companion Set), the 3e supplement "Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe" and elsewhere. I've also looked at historical norms, finding out that eg low-level castle servants didn't get paid; that soldiers and especially sailors ate very well and consumed a *lot* of calories, etc.</p><p></p><p>I have found the 3e baseline numbers to be probably the most useful as a <em>tabula rasa</em> though; in particular the 1 sp/day subsistence level = 3gp/month and the baseline infantry wage of 2sp/day, 6gp/month. The listed middle class expenditure (45gp/m) and lavish expenditure (200gp/m) fit in well there; better than the exaggerated range in the 1e DMG wages (merc soldier 2gp/m, sergeant 20gp/m. lieutenant 200-300gp, captain 500-800gp, PCs spend 100gp/level/m) or in BECMI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5689264, member: 463"] Eh, dozens of books from the '70s on. My starting point is the 1e DMG and the old White Dwarf articles on Town Planner and Building a Pseudo-Medieval Society, with their 'ale standard'. I allow for inflation, the WD articles used 1 1e gp = £20, it's more like 1 4e gp = £50 now. I also look at the BECMI books (especially the Dominion Taxation rules in Companion Set), the 3e supplement "Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe" and elsewhere. I've also looked at historical norms, finding out that eg low-level castle servants didn't get paid; that soldiers and especially sailors ate very well and consumed a *lot* of calories, etc. I have found the 3e baseline numbers to be probably the most useful as a [I]tabula rasa[/I] though; in particular the 1 sp/day subsistence level = 3gp/month and the baseline infantry wage of 2sp/day, 6gp/month. The listed middle class expenditure (45gp/m) and lavish expenditure (200gp/m) fit in well there; better than the exaggerated range in the 1e DMG wages (merc soldier 2gp/m, sergeant 20gp/m. lieutenant 200-300gp, captain 500-800gp, PCs spend 100gp/level/m) or in BECMI. [/QUOTE]
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