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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6061985" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>The point I was making was the upkeep prices are supposedly for <strong><em>player characters</em></strong>. As such, they're adventurers who (going by most 3E campaigns I've seen) spend a significant portion of their time traipsing around the countryside, going down holes in the ground, killing monsters et cetera.</p><p></p><p>If they're doing that, they can't be spending that much time farming - tilling crops can take a lot of work.</p><p></p><p>For that matter, if a labourer is doing a day's work to earn his silver piece, where are they getting the time to grow their own food / sew their clothes et cetera <strong><em>as well</em></strong>. Of course it's easier to explain if a labourer is a peasant farmer - they're growing a crop and giving a portion to their employer/master and (hopefully) have enough left over to eat - but if the labourer is, say, doing digging canals or loading wagons for a living they are unlikely to grow food to supplement their pay. They can hardly carry a small allotment around with them.</p><p></p><p>Either some of the "subsistence level" workers are given a significant chunk of spare time to look after their needs, or their food is an additional expense that their employer has to meet that doesn't appear to be covered in the current expenses tables.</p><p></p><p>Hmm, I suppose they could receive state aid, getting a "bread and oil" dole like ancient Roman commoners, or welfare payments like some Walmart workers...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6061985, member: 57383"] The point I was making was the upkeep prices are supposedly for [B][I]player characters[/I][/B]. As such, they're adventurers who (going by most 3E campaigns I've seen) spend a significant portion of their time traipsing around the countryside, going down holes in the ground, killing monsters et cetera. If they're doing that, they can't be spending that much time farming - tilling crops can take a lot of work. For that matter, if a labourer is doing a day's work to earn his silver piece, where are they getting the time to grow their own food / sew their clothes et cetera [B][I]as well[/I][/B]. Of course it's easier to explain if a labourer is a peasant farmer - they're growing a crop and giving a portion to their employer/master and (hopefully) have enough left over to eat - but if the labourer is, say, doing digging canals or loading wagons for a living they are unlikely to grow food to supplement their pay. They can hardly carry a small allotment around with them. Either some of the "subsistence level" workers are given a significant chunk of spare time to look after their needs, or their food is an additional expense that their employer has to meet that doesn't appear to be covered in the current expenses tables. Hmm, I suppose they could receive state aid, getting a "bread and oil" dole like ancient Roman commoners, or welfare payments like some Walmart workers... [/QUOTE]
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