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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dozen" data-source="post: 6128282" data-attributes="member: 6698275">No, of course not. We'd be drowning in debt to this day! There were about the equalient of 5, 10-hour shift laborers.Let's stay at our house to clarify. The base(very strong to withstand the floods we get twice a year) was built out of cobblestone, masonry was used for walls, about 90 feet outside and 90 inside, the attic was built out of(rather cheap) wood, with a slate roof- let's call that last one one-half the prize of masonry, for a wall of the same width. The kitchen was very small and low tech(50% off), while the bathroom and the two bedrooms were sort of fancy. The dining "hall" was more of a dining room, obviously(75% off), though it doubled as a common area. We also had a library that doubled as an extra, not so fancy room.Base: 10 wall sections worth of stone, 600 gp.Walls: 18 wall sections worth of masonry, 450 gp.Attic: 15 wall sections worth of wood, 150 gp.Top: 2,5 wall sections worth of masonry, 62 gp, 5 ep.+2 extra doors, 20 gp.Kitchen: 100 gp.Fancy bath: 250 gp. fancy bedroom x2: 800 gp.Dining room + cm: 100 gp.Library + br: 170 gp.Overall cost: 2700 gold pieces. That'd take 27 days with a crew of one hundred workers as per the errata. 5 people a day on average would take 20 times as long, 540 days. I'm not suprised to see it would have taken less than two years assuming everything went smoothly(if the fact the building site was flooded four times is not of any indication, I assure you, nothing did).Now, the grand house costs 5000 gold pieces, and thus takes 50 days to build -which is indeed 50.000 manhours with 100 people working on it ten hours a day(50 days * 10 hours * 100 workers).So no, the crews should not be smaller for the building times provided. Two months spent on building a house by a large, professional group working only on that is reasonable.</blockquote>

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