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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5692609" data-attributes="member: 2093">I run e6. So there's no epic economy, and no world-shaking magic to deal with. My economy is silver-based, and even wealthy folk only rarely handle gold.A poor person, a peasant or free yeoman-type (or a day laborer, apprentice or footsoldier) would earn the equivalent of 1-3 sp per day in earnings. However only about 1/10th of that would be in coin. The rest would be in-kind earnings. Mostly roof over the head, food to eat and clothes to wear. Some might eat well and have good clothes, but they don't have freedom or anything they can convert to coinage. Most have no legal right to travel, or if they do, it is highly restricted.middle class folks own property in the way of their own clothing, the tools of their trade, have rights to the use of property or membership in a guild. They're able to care for themselves. They might earn anywhere from twice to twenty times what a peasant earns, and they have the ability to pick up and move. They've got skills and they're not bound to the land they work. Most see and handle coinage on a regular basis, but don't have massive amounts on hand.wealthy folk are the property owners. They control the contracts that bind lesser folk. They run the guilds and sit on the councils that run cities. They might have no more coinage at hand than a middle-class merchant, but they have POWER. They know HOW to operate the strings of society, and others expect them to be able to do so. That's my take on wealth in my campaign world.</blockquote>

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