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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3959035" data-attributes="member: 1003">It was a guess, based on often substantiated prior experience. But I have removed the comments since people didn't like it.Which is exactly why their numbers are always wrong. Most players don't care, so they don't care eithr, and spend their time thinking about whether classes are balanced, not whether the population figures make any sense.&nbsp; I'm fine with that too; I prefer they make a good game, because I can &quot;fix&quot; the sociology later if I care to.In 3E anyone who took even one minute to figure out if NPC wages and PHB prices matched up at all quickly realized that anyone below the level or &quot;advanced artisan&quot; couldn't even buy enough food to feed himself, let alone a family.&nbsp; KarinsDad pointed out (correctly) that you had to multiply all wages by five just to reach subsistence.&nbsp; If WotC had taken the five minutes it took him to figure that out, the prices listed in the book would have &quot;made sense.&quot;&nbsp; Which was the only point of my last comment.&nbsp; WotC has a pretty well-established record of giving very little thought to these things.That's not a value judgment or an insult. It's just an observation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 3959035, member: 1003"] It was a guess, based on often substantiated prior experience. But I have removed the comments since people didn't like it. Which is exactly why their numbers are always wrong. Most players don't care, so they don't care eithr, and spend their time thinking about whether classes are balanced, not whether the population figures make any sense. I'm fine with that too; I prefer they make a good game, because I can "fix" the sociology later if I care to. In 3E anyone who took even one minute to figure out if NPC wages and PHB prices matched up at all quickly realized that anyone below the level or "advanced artisan" couldn't even buy enough food to feed himself, let alone a family. KarinsDad pointed out (correctly) that you had to multiply all wages by five just to reach subsistence. If WotC had taken the five minutes it took him to figure that out, the prices listed in the book would have "made sense." Which was the only point of my last comment. WotC has a pretty well-established record of giving very little thought to these things. That's not a value judgment or an insult. It's just an observation. [/QUOTE]

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