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<blockquote data-quote="Ferghis" data-source="post: 5917778" data-attributes="member: 40483"><p>What Siberys said about food and water. I'd rather assess them a "lifestyle cost" that goes along with their purported lifestyle: this covers all day-to-day costs involving shelter, entertainment, food, mundane ammunition, the needs of a mount, and gives other benefits for those who choose to spend more. To parse out these "extra" benefits, the population of the setting is divided up into 4 classes, with first level adventurers being in the second to bottom class, unless their background is different (this is stolen from a poster here at Enworld, but I lost the source - if you recognize it, please pipe up for proper credit):</p><p></p><p>Less than 1% of the population are wealthy individuals that spend about 200gp per month. That kind of cash establishes you as a person of power, lets you develop useful contacts, and yields other in-game benefits.</p><p></p><p>About 5% to 15% of the population belong to a growing minority, the middle-class, and spends about 40gp per month. For most people, this is a successful life, and it includes skilled craftsmen, officials, most nobles, officials and officers.</p><p></p><p>About 15% to 20% of the population spends about 10gp permonth. This is the category of individuals who are clawing their way out of poverty. For the unsuccessful or novice adventurer, they sleep 5 to a room (1 sp) and eat 1 meal/day (2sp), the 3sp/day is 2gp/week or 8gp/month for long-term stay. Call it 10gp/month including equipment, clothes, booze & sundries. A little less than what a mercenary sergeant or elite soldier makes. Also covers journeyman artisans and similar levels.</p><p></p><p>The vast majority (70%) of people live by spending about 3gp per month, or living off the land they cultivate. A peasant labourer sleeps in a ragged blanket on a dry(ish) stone/reed floor with 30 other men for 1cp/day, gets your food from the market with plenty of hot broth and porridge and you can eat for ca 5 cp/day, if there's regular work you still have 4 cp/day for patching your rags and drinking plenty of weak beer at ca 2 cp/gallon... Not such a bad life by historical standards. But if there's no regular work, you better hope you saved some cps, or it's a choice (at best) between starvation and begging.</p><p></p><p>Costs roughly equate to 1 cp = $1, 1gp = $100.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ferghis, post: 5917778, member: 40483"] What Siberys said about food and water. I'd rather assess them a "lifestyle cost" that goes along with their purported lifestyle: this covers all day-to-day costs involving shelter, entertainment, food, mundane ammunition, the needs of a mount, and gives other benefits for those who choose to spend more. To parse out these "extra" benefits, the population of the setting is divided up into 4 classes, with first level adventurers being in the second to bottom class, unless their background is different (this is stolen from a poster here at Enworld, but I lost the source - if you recognize it, please pipe up for proper credit): Less than 1% of the population are wealthy individuals that spend about 200gp per month. That kind of cash establishes you as a person of power, lets you develop useful contacts, and yields other in-game benefits. About 5% to 15% of the population belong to a growing minority, the middle-class, and spends about 40gp per month. For most people, this is a successful life, and it includes skilled craftsmen, officials, most nobles, officials and officers. About 15% to 20% of the population spends about 10gp permonth. This is the category of individuals who are clawing their way out of poverty. For the unsuccessful or novice adventurer, they sleep 5 to a room (1 sp) and eat 1 meal/day (2sp), the 3sp/day is 2gp/week or 8gp/month for long-term stay. Call it 10gp/month including equipment, clothes, booze & sundries. A little less than what a mercenary sergeant or elite soldier makes. Also covers journeyman artisans and similar levels. The vast majority (70%) of people live by spending about 3gp per month, or living off the land they cultivate. A peasant labourer sleeps in a ragged blanket on a dry(ish) stone/reed floor with 30 other men for 1cp/day, gets your food from the market with plenty of hot broth and porridge and you can eat for ca 5 cp/day, if there's regular work you still have 4 cp/day for patching your rags and drinking plenty of weak beer at ca 2 cp/gallon... Not such a bad life by historical standards. But if there's no regular work, you better hope you saved some cps, or it's a choice (at best) between starvation and begging. Costs roughly equate to 1 cp = $1, 1gp = $100. [/QUOTE]
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