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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5437406" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Eh, 300 squares is 75'x100' or 7,500 sq feet. That's about the size of 4 large modern houses. I'd think a peasant house of 20'x20' would be 400 sq feet = 5000 / 7500 * 400 = 267 gp. It is a pretty small house, but if you work out costs you can figure a peasant is probably making on the order of 100 gp/yr if he's kinda poor, maybe a couple hundred if he's prosperous. If he can afford a house worth a couple years wages, then it seems to be in the right ballpark at 5k for 300 squares. Basically your poorer peasants are living about like 3rd world farmers do today in poor areas, probably not a bad analogy. The richer peasant could probably afford 800 sq feet, so maybe his place is 2 stories. Considering your average tract house in the US in say 1970 was around 1500 sq feet (I know ours was and we weren't especially poor) 800 sq feet back in those days was probably a pretty nice pad.</p></blockquote><p></p>