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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9230872" data-attributes="member: 9254"><p>PHB has unskilled as "Untrained hirelings are hired for menial work that requires no particular skill and can include laborers, porters, maids, and similar workers."</p><p></p><p>Given that a valet is essentially a man's maid, that ought to be unskilled. Meaning aside from the cook and the chamberlain, household servants should be unskilled labor.</p><p></p><p>Guide goes in "it depends" for me. Does it require particular skill to traverse familiar areas, even if the roads are unmarked? No, any street urchin can readily navigate the neighborhoods they grew up in, but it's worth it to a traveler to hire one to be a guide.</p><p></p><p>What about through a trackless jungle? A snowy mountsin? Or if you need water for an army? Yeah, then Guide is a skilled task.</p><p></p><p>I do love that the 1gp/day Modest lifestyle calls out "Ordinary people living modest lifestyles include soldiers with families, <strong>laborers</strong>, students, priests, hedge wizards, and the like" when laborers are explicitly 2sp/day hirelings.</p><p></p><p>I don't care about historical accuracy, I just want something approximating consistency. I want the spherical cow of expense to be scaled appropriately to the spherical cow of income.</p><p></p><p>If the townies are overcharging adventurers on rent ("1gp/day for you weirdos but Gunter is a local boy and only pays me 2sp"), overcharge the same amount for labor. ("Gunter will get your luggage to the ship for 1gp/day, you weirdo")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9230872, member: 9254"] PHB has unskilled as "Untrained hirelings are hired for menial work that requires no particular skill and can include laborers, porters, maids, and similar workers." Given that a valet is essentially a man's maid, that ought to be unskilled. Meaning aside from the cook and the chamberlain, household servants should be unskilled labor. Guide goes in "it depends" for me. Does it require particular skill to traverse familiar areas, even if the roads are unmarked? No, any street urchin can readily navigate the neighborhoods they grew up in, but it's worth it to a traveler to hire one to be a guide. What about through a trackless jungle? A snowy mountsin? Or if you need water for an army? Yeah, then Guide is a skilled task. I do love that the 1gp/day Modest lifestyle calls out "Ordinary people living modest lifestyles include soldiers with families, [B]laborers[/B], students, priests, hedge wizards, and the like" when laborers are explicitly 2sp/day hirelings. I don't care about historical accuracy, I just want something approximating consistency. I want the spherical cow of expense to be scaled appropriately to the spherical cow of income. If the townies are overcharging adventurers on rent ("1gp/day for you weirdos but Gunter is a local boy and only pays me 2sp"), overcharge the same amount for labor. ("Gunter will get your luggage to the ship for 1gp/day, you weirdo") [/QUOTE]
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