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<blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1710116" data-attributes="member: 945"><p>The thing that gets me is this:</p><p></p><p>If you build a party of 4 characters (cleric, fighter, wizard, rogue) at 1st level, and take their starting gold: 5d4x10, 6d4x10, 3d4x10, and 5d4x10 and average that out, you get 125, 150, 75 and 125 gold pieces each.</p><p></p><p>Assuming that these individuals started in a village, hamlet, or even a thorp, where the heck did they get that kind of money? A first level cleric in a thorp could buy the most expensive thing in the whole freaking town three times over.</p><p></p><p>The cost of a stay in a poor quality inn is 2sp per day. A first level fighter could afford to put everyone in an 80-person thorp in an inn for over a week. Why wouldn't a first level bard (with his 100gp) buy 2,500 mugs of ale for everyone in a large town?</p><p></p><p>I mean, jeez, a first level bard could, if he wanted, stand in the middle of town and yell out, "A free mug of ale on me, for everyone in the entire town!" Who wouldn't love the guy after that?</p><p></p><p>A first level rogue could hire every laborer in a large town, pay them *more* than the standard 1sp piece per day, let's say 15cp per day (1.5sp), and could hire 833 laborer/hours. If you assume that a hamlet of 200 people is 50% laborers, that's 100 laborers. This rogue could hire them *all*, paying 150% wages for 8 solid days. Let's hope the local noble isn't trying to get a castle built or anything like that.</p><p></p><p>That's some serious economic power, folks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="der_kluge, post: 1710116, member: 945"] The thing that gets me is this: If you build a party of 4 characters (cleric, fighter, wizard, rogue) at 1st level, and take their starting gold: 5d4x10, 6d4x10, 3d4x10, and 5d4x10 and average that out, you get 125, 150, 75 and 125 gold pieces each. Assuming that these individuals started in a village, hamlet, or even a thorp, where the heck did they get that kind of money? A first level cleric in a thorp could buy the most expensive thing in the whole freaking town three times over. The cost of a stay in a poor quality inn is 2sp per day. A first level fighter could afford to put everyone in an 80-person thorp in an inn for over a week. Why wouldn't a first level bard (with his 100gp) buy 2,500 mugs of ale for everyone in a large town? I mean, jeez, a first level bard could, if he wanted, stand in the middle of town and yell out, "A free mug of ale on me, for everyone in the entire town!" Who wouldn't love the guy after that? A first level rogue could hire every laborer in a large town, pay them *more* than the standard 1sp piece per day, let's say 15cp per day (1.5sp), and could hire 833 laborer/hours. If you assume that a hamlet of 200 people is 50% laborers, that's 100 laborers. This rogue could hire them *all*, paying 150% wages for 8 solid days. Let's hope the local noble isn't trying to get a castle built or anything like that. That's some serious economic power, folks. [/QUOTE]
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