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I have a question of economics.
I am interested in comparing the “average” income of people in Golaron from a variety of walks of life, to adventurers.
If we take Perin’s Bluff, from the Tower of the last Baron, as an example, How much annual income in gold and silver would a free farmer who owns his own plot of land make?
How much might one of the Baron’s serfs make, assuming he had some?
How much gold annually on average might lucky Benn Willhuff, the innkeeper of the Dry Well make from his business?
What about Argith the alchemist? Or Smaar Janderfut, the blacksmith and owner of the bucket and bellows?
What kind of income might Shiyara the hight mediator, cleric of Asmodeus have from running the “local” temple?
How much might captain Blacklock be paid annually? And How much might one of the keep guards be paid annually?
And finally Baron Galdur Vendikon? Being an aristocrat and having his own realm what kind of income might he have? What kind of expences?
For comparison lets take a standard adventuring party, a fighter Valeros, a cleric Kyra, a rogue Merisiel and a wizard Ezren, and assume they divide up their treasure equally. I would also assume each party member would get what magic items they could best use from loot, with anything unusable sold off. how much might they individually earn in a year? Lets say they are following the Rise of the Runelords adventure path starting in Sandpoint and working their way along the adventure path. I would assume that in a year they might cover Burnt offerings, the Skinsaw Murders, and the Hook mountain massacre. And In that time they might have advanced from 1st level to 9th or 10th level. I am also going to assume upkeep from page 130 of the DMG, of good, 100 gp a month. That is probably equivalent to the wealthy cost of living on page 405 of he Pathfinder rulebook.
I am just curious to compare adventurers and people from other walks of life. Thanks.
I have a question of economics.
I am interested in comparing the “average” income of people in Golaron from a variety of walks of life, to adventurers.
If we take Perin’s Bluff, from the Tower of the last Baron, as an example, How much annual income in gold and silver would a free farmer who owns his own plot of land make?
How much might one of the Baron’s serfs make, assuming he had some?How much gold annually on average might lucky Benn Willhuff, the innkeeper of the Dry Well make from his business?
What about Argith the alchemist? Or Smaar Janderfut, the blacksmith and owner of the bucket and bellows?
What kind of income might Shiyara the hight mediator, cleric of Asmodeus have from running the “local” temple?
How much might captain Blacklock be paid annually? And How much might one of the keep guards be paid annually?
And finally Baron Galdur Vendikon? Being an aristocrat and having his own realm what kind of income might he have? What kind of expences?
For comparison lets take a standard adventuring party, a fighter Valeros, a cleric Kyra, a rogue Merisiel and a wizard Ezren, and assume they divide up their treasure equally. I would also assume each party member would get what magic items they could best use from loot, with anything unusable sold off. how much might they individually earn in a year? Lets say they are following the Rise of the Runelords adventure path starting in Sandpoint and working their way along the adventure path. I would assume that in a year they might cover Burnt offerings, the Skinsaw Murders, and the Hook mountain massacre. And In that time they might have advanced from 1st level to 9th or 10th level. I am also going to assume upkeep from page 130 of the DMG, of good, 100 gp a month. That is probably equivalent to the wealthy cost of living on page 405 of he Pathfinder rulebook.
I am just curious to compare adventurers and people from other walks of life. Thanks.
Let's take a standard human 1st level commoner as an example. Let's say this commoner has a wisdom score of 15 (13+2 for being human) 1 rank in his chosen profession and the skill focus feat for said profession giving him a total skill score of +9. Then let's assume he takes 10 on his profession skill check each week.
According to the rules for the profession skill this will earn him a weekly income of 9 GP and 5 SP (half his profession skill roll). In a month this accumulates to 38 GP for an average human 1st level worker.
Untrained laborer's earn 1sp each day according to the description of the profession skill, making that approximatly 3 GP every month.
Taking into account the cost of living an average farmer would have to spend about 10 GP each month to live an average lifestyle giving him about 28 GP to save or spend as he sees fit, while the untrained laborer would spend his entire income of 3 GP just to get a meal and a place to sleep.
As for adventurer's I think their income would vary a great deal depending on their lifestyles and the success of their adventures. Adventurer's tend to live day by day and not be to concerned with annual incomes, although landowning or working adventurers might have a steady source of income depending on their profession and craft skills as well as their reputation. Spellcasting adventurer's may earn some additional money from spellcasting and creating magical items, but this would be on a case by case basis. The only reference I see to an adventurer's wealth is the PC wealth by level table in the Pathfinder RPG core rulebook and DMG, but this wealth is kind of abstract since it only depends on the PC's level and not how much he earns per week or month, but I think it is fair to say that any adventurer has a greater income than your average Joe, even 1st level characters have a great deal of money to buy their starting gear with.
