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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1541138" data-attributes="member: 18377">Now you are assuming that all the revenue is gross profit. You ought to allow for expenses, such as wages and maintenance.And I still doubt that the revenue you assume makes sense, because the price of accommodation is very high in comparison to wages.You have the advantage in defending a list of highly erratic prices that you are able to choose the ones that are unreasonably low and ignore the ones that are unreasonably high. A mediaeval worker would not have been able to afford a chicken on a day's wages. On the other hand, he would have been able to afford two and a half gallons of ale rather than half a gallon. Or his wages would have covered five nights' accommodation in an inn (for the standards suitable for a gentleman's servant), instead of half a night. Or 1,000 days' wages would have built twenty-five two-storey cottages, instead of one simple house.The touchstone for costs of living in a quasi-mediaeval setting is bread. A mediaeval labourer was paid the (typical) price of five 24-oz loaves of bread per day, or 7.5 pounds of bread. A labourer in D&D is paid the price of 5 half-pound loaves per day, or 2.5 pounds of bread.That is a problem, but I am consistently careful to avoid it by always working in terms of labour-prices.It should. Now, what role-playing purpose is served by making chickens eight times too cheap and bread three times too expensive?</blockquote>

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