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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 376438" data-attributes="member: 463">I don't think the PHB Craft/Profession income rules make much sense as applied to farming; I use them for urban gemcutters and such 'middle class' town activities.  IMC a night in a private or double room at an Inn, with board, typically costs 1gp, whereas a labourer earns 1sp/day - but if a labourer stays at an Inn he'll be sleeping in the main room or stables for a couple of coppers, private rooms and clean sheets are a luxury for adventurers, not commoners!You can run a D&D game where the economy resembles 20th century America and the common labourer earns 1gp/$100* a day - justifiable if high magic or other factors raise food production sufficiently that most commoners get to use those Craft skill points people keep going on about for something other than farming - but this does NOT appear to be the assumption of the Greyhawk or Realms settings; all the material given indicates they're only a bit 'nicer' wealthier/richier than the real middle ages.*Working in an unskilled job as a 'domestic assistant' in an Edinburgh hospital a few years ago I earned about £3/hour, £20 or $30/day, after tax - about 3 sp/day in D&D terms. £100 or $150/week, 15 sp.  That's in a first-world country.</blockquote>