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<blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 53546" data-attributes="member: 2486"><p><strong>Craft skills and peasant labour.</strong></p><p></p><p>Now what really bugs me is the disparity between the earnings listed under Craft skills and the earnings listed under the average peasant labour. </p><p>Now, I think (don't have PHB on hand) that the check results for Craft/Profession is equal to the number of silver pieces earned per week. </p><p>The peasant earnings listed under the DMG states that the average labourer earns 1 sp /day.</p><p></p><p>Now...if the Craft checks earnings are made to equal the peasant earnings per day, and assuming the peasant works six days a week, that means that the peasant has a check result of 6. Which means, assuming that he is taking 10 he HAS NO SKILL POINTS IN HIS OCCUPATION AND ALL PEASANTS HAVE AN INT OF 3. If the peasant works a seven day week, or the week in Craft skill is taken to be a working week, then that implies either 1 SKILL POINT and INT 3 or NO SKILL POINTS and INT 5. What, we wonder, does the commoner spend his skill points on, then? Listen?</p><p></p><p>However, taken the other way round, we will assume that the average peasant labourer has an Intelligence of 10, 4 skill points and Skill Focus in whatever he has chosen as his occupation. Using the Craft skill rules, he earns (taking 10) 16 silver per week, more than double that listed. And of course that's ONLY IF HE'S NOT MAKING ANYTHING. If he actually decides to make something (which would be surprising *sarcasm*) then he earns significantly more.</p><p></p><p>The intricacies of labour-intensive work, complexities of manufacture and models of economic theory are fine when discussing relative barrel prices to labourer wages, but this example just proves that something is amiss. Perhaps we should scale up the wages in the DMG to match the PHB craft earnings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al, post: 53546, member: 2486"] [b]Craft skills and peasant labour.[/b] Now what really bugs me is the disparity between the earnings listed under Craft skills and the earnings listed under the average peasant labour. Now, I think (don't have PHB on hand) that the check results for Craft/Profession is equal to the number of silver pieces earned per week. The peasant earnings listed under the DMG states that the average labourer earns 1 sp /day. Now...if the Craft checks earnings are made to equal the peasant earnings per day, and assuming the peasant works six days a week, that means that the peasant has a check result of 6. Which means, assuming that he is taking 10 he HAS NO SKILL POINTS IN HIS OCCUPATION AND ALL PEASANTS HAVE AN INT OF 3. If the peasant works a seven day week, or the week in Craft skill is taken to be a working week, then that implies either 1 SKILL POINT and INT 3 or NO SKILL POINTS and INT 5. What, we wonder, does the commoner spend his skill points on, then? Listen? However, taken the other way round, we will assume that the average peasant labourer has an Intelligence of 10, 4 skill points and Skill Focus in whatever he has chosen as his occupation. Using the Craft skill rules, he earns (taking 10) 16 silver per week, more than double that listed. And of course that's ONLY IF HE'S NOT MAKING ANYTHING. If he actually decides to make something (which would be surprising *sarcasm*) then he earns significantly more. The intricacies of labour-intensive work, complexities of manufacture and models of economic theory are fine when discussing relative barrel prices to labourer wages, but this example just proves that something is amiss. Perhaps we should scale up the wages in the DMG to match the PHB craft earnings. [/QUOTE]
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