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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6495755" data-attributes="member: 37579">Thank you. Have some xp.You bring up cost of living, which is a fair point. 1sp is the lowest of the Lifestyle Expenses on page 157, which does omit &quot;utilities bills&quot; but also means the person is living in &quot;a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut outside the town, or a vermin-infested boarding house&quot;. It's a level of poverty below our common expectations that fills the gulf between &quot;homeless&quot; and &quot;welfare recipient&quot;. Which makes sense as minimum wage really did increase the lowest standard of living. So artisans might be a little better off, being a well-paid member of the small medieval middle class, since they can afford either the &quot;modest&quot; or &quot;poor&quot; lifestyle options. With minimum wage equating to someone who can afford the 2sp &quot;poor&quot; option but not quite the 1gp/day &quot;modest&quot; option. I feel comfortable with my &quot;split the difference&quot; option with 5sp having roughly the same buying power as $50. Earning a gp a day ($100) is good, but you're barely middle class, and earning $10 makes living hard in the modern world. It likely doesn't work out perfectly as the cost of so many items is based more on how available items are to adventurers and balance, plus the cost in earlier editions. A longsword has been 15gp for multiple editions. They likely didn't go through the book and calculate reasonable prices so much as eyeballed the value and went &quot;eh, close enough&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6495755, member: 37579"] Thank you. Have some xp. You bring up cost of living, which is a fair point. 1sp is the lowest of the Lifestyle Expenses on page 157, which does omit "utilities bills" but also means the person is living in "a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut outside the town, or a vermin-infested boarding house". It's a level of poverty below our common expectations that fills the gulf between "homeless" and "welfare recipient". Which makes sense as minimum wage really did increase the lowest standard of living. So artisans might be a little better off, being a well-paid member of the small medieval middle class, since they can afford either the "modest" or "poor" lifestyle options. With minimum wage equating to someone who can afford the 2sp "poor" option but not quite the 1gp/day "modest" option. I feel comfortable with my "split the difference" option with 5sp having roughly the same buying power as $50. Earning a gp a day ($100) is good, but you're barely middle class, and earning $10 makes living hard in the modern world. It likely doesn't work out perfectly as the cost of so many items is based more on how available items are to adventurers and balance, plus the cost in earlier editions. A longsword has been 15gp for multiple editions. They likely didn't go through the book and calculate reasonable prices so much as eyeballed the value and went "eh, close enough". [/QUOTE]

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