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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5955508" data-attributes="member: 1210">Holy crap, these rules are terrible now that I look at them. The price is per day- so for instance, a 1st level linkboy is 15 gp/day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />There is a note that &quot;long-term service can sometimes be gotten at a lower rate&quot; and the price includes &quot;initial fee, salary, food, equipment and the materials the hireling might need along the way.&quot; Finally, there is a note about the prices being &quot;an abstraction intended to simply&quot; dealing with hirelings.But really, 15 gp/day for a 1st level linkboy??You might be better off going back to earlier editions for this- even if this is for a Zeitgeist adventure, it's prolly worth writing a sidebar on this issue.EDIT: A pilot costs double standard. So assume 1 pilot and 20 &quot;seasened crew members&quot; who are all first level (and hirelings are minions, by the way!), and a 30 day month- and you are looking at almost 10,000 gp per month in operating expenses. Jebus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5955508, member: 1210"] Holy crap, these rules are terrible now that I look at them. The price is per day- so for instance, a 1st level linkboy is 15 gp/day. :eek: There is a note that "long-term service can sometimes be gotten at a lower rate" and the price includes "initial fee, salary, food, equipment and the materials the hireling might need along the way." Finally, there is a note about the prices being "an abstraction intended to simply" dealing with hirelings. But really, 15 gp/day for a 1st level linkboy?? You might be better off going back to earlier editions for this- even if this is for a Zeitgeist adventure, it's prolly worth writing a sidebar on this issue. EDIT: A pilot costs double standard. So assume 1 pilot and 20 "seasened crew members" who are all first level (and hirelings are minions, by the way!), and a 30 day month- and you are looking at almost 10,000 gp per month in operating expenses. Jebus. [/QUOTE]

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