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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2246909" data-attributes="member: 16989">Also keep land prices in mind.Me & my wife just bought a nice 2 story brick home (with basement) in Boonville, MO (pop 10,000 or less).  Paid well under $100,000.  The same style of house in Columbia 30 miles down I-70 (pop ov er 100,000) was at least $ 150,000.  And Missouri has cheap land prices.Are they trying to buy land in New York or Wyoming.  One's a lot cheaper than the other.  How close are they to a large city.  Inside the city will be horribly expensive (esp one with city walls for protection).  Are they outside the city & how far?  In a dangerous area anything outside teh city walls might be dirt cheap (what wtih the orcs &gorgons running around).  If presumably safe, rich nobles within a day's ride or so will drive land prices up a lot (of course there might be a few decent former manors on the market).  As most everyone relies on horses or feet for tranportation, anything beyond a day's ride or so will see land prices drop dramatically.On the other hand, in remote areas, no one might even OWN the land.  Just use squatter's rights (I ain't talking about the outhouse) to stake a claim.Then there is the special mods. like Necromantic Wells of Absolulte Evil nearby or within a Red Dragon's territory.  This can really drive down the cost of land.</blockquote>