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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6493834" data-attributes="member: 2011">Nowhere near?It depends on your POV.How much does a gun cost in the modern world? $500. The cost of a mace in the game.How much does a horse cost? Transportation. 50 GP to 400 GP, $5000 to $40,000, the cost of a car in the real world.A backpack? 2 GP = $200, similar to the real world.A room for the night? 5 SP modest ($50, Motel 6) to 2 GP wealthy ($200, luxury hotel).A meal? 3 SP modest ($30 a day) to 8 SP wealthy ($80 a day)A lot of the items in the book correspond fairly closely at a $100 per GP rate. Perfect? No. There are always exceptions and the real world has mass production.But the basic "How long can I have a roof over my head, pay taxes, have some minor entertainment and eat meals?". 1 GP = $100 fits that really close.Lifestyle expenses per day:Squalid: 1 SP: $10Poor: 2 SP: $20Modest: 1 GP: $100. How many people make (in the US) about $35,000 a year and that's their living expenses (taxes, food, housing, clothes, etc.)? Quite a few.Comfortable: 2 GP: $200, $70,000 a year in the real world.This really is almost spot on. Close enough for when a DM says: "The Earl offers you $50 GP each to go clear out the bandits.", the players can rough rule of thumb that at $5000 each. Enough to live for a month or so.The reason for the conversion is that $750 GP really doesn't mean anything to people. It's a number and not necessarily a large one. $75,000. That's a number people understand from their own lives.</blockquote>

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