How much does your local inn charge?

[Creamsteak]

Alright, here's a question for you all: How much does your inn charge? For an example, let's just use the "only inn in a small town." How much do they charge? Do they have different rates for different rooms? Do they serve meals? Do the players fight over the best room? Do they haggle the price down, or pay for the best room in the place?



My method has always been to "choke as much gold out of them as possible." In other terms, if they'll pay twenty and thirty gold for a room, that's how much I'll charge. If all they have is a few coppers, I'll take them all and tell them they can have a the cellers if they kill the rats.

 

[nsruf]

Nothing, it's covered by upkeep After all, this is a game of heroic fantasy and not of bookkeeping minutiae. Who cares for a few cp or sp?

 

[S'mon]

In theory IMC you get a private bed with clean sheets & pretty much full board usually for 1gp/night. That'd usually be a shared room, w 2-4 beds, so a private room could be 2-4gp, although few people would want one - even the virginal noble girl travelling without her family would sleep with her maidservant in the room and a bodyguard outside the door.

In practice this is usually covered by long-term upkeep. Commoners can sleep on the floor in the common room or in the stables for maybe 1cp, or free if they've spent a few cps on booze first.

 

[frankthedm]

the 1 to 10 gold range is pretty wide IMO, but usually i charge them 2 to 4 a person for individual rooms in most areas. if the players LOOK like "money", they get offered "the finest rooms in the house" for a little bit extra and the keep suggests "high quality" food and drink.

"I hope that Black dragon spiced steak is not too tart for ya. Say... might i int'rest ya in some of my finest spirit? Bugman's Baelfire, dist'led 5 times by the dwarves. So strong it can make you forget the horrors of any battle. Just a few gold for a shot...the whole bottle? A bargain for only 50 gold this far from dwarven lands." {olde Mystery meat marinated in cloves and vinegar and some home made hooch the innkeeper won't drink for platinum}

 

[Vaxalon]

Nothing, it's covered by upkeep After all, this is a game of heroic fantasy and not of bookkeeping minutiae. Who cares for a few cp or sp?

Exactly!

 

[Wombat]

Wildly different rates.

You can crash on the common floor with the a bunch of other folk for a couple of coppers.

You can have a room all to yourself with a decent bed, food and drink included, for quite a bit more.

Most rooms are multiple occupancy, sometimes with complete strangers.

And the quality of the place varies widely as well.

So I'm not sure a "typical inn price" exists in my game; let's say a shared-occupancy room (5 people, 1 bed) in a smallish town, no extra ammenities, would run 1gp/person.

 

[Crothian]

inn prices vary by a lot. If its the only inn in the town, then its a small town and they don'ty get many visitors. So, they would carge a few silver pure night, extra for food, extra for stables, etc.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I didn't answer, because, usually, the cost of an inn will probably be insignificant to the characters. There could be exceptions when and if the players want to stay at the finest pleasure hall, but it hasn't really occured yet.

AR

 

[Fenes 3]

Lately I have stopped to use money in my campaigns. Instead of possessing x pieces of gold, y pieces of silver etc. characters just have a certain status - like rich, well off, poor etc. - with all that this may entail (DM's discretion). Luxury items are handled case by case, spawning an adventure, or just "putting a dent in the monthly budget" or "out of reach".

Works pretty well, but then, I don't have much magic in my campaigns, and no magic shops.

 

[the Jester]

It varies widely. An inn that's cornered the market prolly charges a few gp a night for a room, but with healthy competition it's prolly a few silver. Also, a copper or two will usually get you some space in the common room.