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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 376516" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I agree that an Inn needs to be affordable by its clientele, but the 1sp/day labourer will be sleeping for free in his employer's kitchen or barn, not at an Inn.&nbsp; An Inn will need to charge its common-room rate so that eg peddlers, drovers, mercenary caravan guards and so on can afford to sleep there, if that's who the potential clientele are.&nbsp; If the Inn functions as a boarding-house (which isn't the DMG assumption) then prices for long-term residents will need to be less than wages, probably 2/3 the clientele's daily wage. 2sp/day doesn't seem unaffordable for a farmer &amp; son driving their sheep to market, say.&nbsp; In the real world, hotel prices are often higher than daily wages - $30 motels may still be common in parts of the USA but you'd be hard pressed to get a room for £20 in the UK.&nbsp; £40 would be more likely - rather more than an unskilled worker's net daily wage.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 376516, member: 463"] I agree that an Inn needs to be affordable by its clientele, but the 1sp/day labourer will be sleeping for free in his employer's kitchen or barn, not at an Inn. An Inn will need to charge its common-room rate so that eg peddlers, drovers, mercenary caravan guards and so on can afford to sleep there, if that's who the potential clientele are. If the Inn functions as a boarding-house (which isn't the DMG assumption) then prices for long-term residents will need to be less than wages, probably 2/3 the clientele's daily wage. 2sp/day doesn't seem unaffordable for a farmer & son driving their sheep to market, say. In the real world, hotel prices are often higher than daily wages - $30 motels may still be common in parts of the USA but you'd be hard pressed to get a room for £20 in the UK. £40 would be more likely - rather more than an unskilled worker's net daily wage. [/QUOTE]

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