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Hey all, about to start DMing a CoT group.
Since all the PCs are going to be mostly natives of Westcrown I need to figure out where they are going to live and how much it costs.
Digging through the APs, Companion, and Player's Guide, I could not find the cost of living costs found in books like Guide to Absalom.
I've thought about just winging it based on other City rates (Korvosa, etc.)
Does anyone have any suggestions are the location of such information?
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The cost of living should be a little less than Korvosa, considering Westcrown is not a trendy place to be.
In my game, I let the semi-noble character have a small one-bedroom house with an attic for his halfling slave, another PC. He also owned a small theater, where the other two PCs stayed. They are all actors.
my PCs, "The Westcrown Detectives", have a small office/residential space above a brothel. It's a pretty small office with three private offices, a lobby, and a storage room where they keep weapons and beer. They just sleep in their offices or on the couch in the lobby. I charge them 50gp/month for the space, which is a pretty arbitrary number, but seems to be reasonable given their adventuring income and income from side jobs. As they gain notoriety, anonymous donations to their cause are a tool I'm keeping in my back pocket in case they get strapped for cash.
(We just completed part 1 of the AP)
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50gp/month for an office above a brothel seems a big much.
For an adventuring party, it doesn't, but if that was regular citizens, a place above a brothel is shady and/or tacky, depending on the brothel. Also, most people who would consider renting that space don't have 50gp a month to spend on it.
I'd add the story line that they are getting royally ripped off by their landlord because they are adventurers, have the money, and aren't smart enough to know the difference.
It's true. If you look at prices of things like staying at an Inn for the night, buying food and beer, etc. it's definitely comparatively high. So I guess my number is a bad example if you are trying to maintain some sort of economic realism. However, it is worth pointing out that it has had no ill effect on our game thus far.
The point being, I just wouldn't worry about it too much. When you are looking at things in relation to starting wealth, things can seem expensive. But just say that they just paid a month's rent, so they have a month to start earning money from adventures before they have to pay again, and you will quickly see that spending a great deal of time trying to figure it out is time that could be better spent on other things. 5sp or 5gp or 50gp, it will be such a small percentage of their wealth, it shouldn't really matter.
That's just my opinion anyways, and it works for my group that has little care for the intricacies of economics, etc. ymmv.
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This was suggested in another thread a while back and seems to fit the districts pretty well.
Having residence for sale in the Blade Sector is a rare event. Even rarer in the Crown Sector. There are no rental options here.
Ownership
Manor: 160,000 gp or more
House: 100,000 gp or more
Townhouse: 80,000 gp
Apartment: 16,000 gp
Treasure Sector
This relatively new part of the city has become the home of some of the finest stores and theaters in Westcrown. Items of value can be found here, but as such the land tends to be costly
Ownership
House: 45,000gp
Townhouse: 35,000gp
Apartment: 20,000gp
Rent per month
House: 200gp
Townhouse: 150gp
Apartment: 100gp
Coin Sector
Home of the new rich, the Coin sector has grown to be the seat of the rising merchant families, and groups that don’t stem from noble houses.
Ownership
House: 30,000 gp
Townhouse: 20,000 gp
Apartment: 15,000 gp
Rent per month
House: 100 gp
Apartment Suite: 50 gp
Scribe Sector
This is the heart of Westcrown today. The majority of the middle class make their homes here. Plenty of shops and business dot the streets. Outside of the Coin Sector or Westcrown Island this is the best lit place at night, though still dangerous.
Ownership
House: 17,000gp
Townhouse: 10,000gp
Apartment: 5,000gp
Rent per month
House: 75gp
Townhouse: 50gp
Apartment: 25gp
Flat: 15gp
Blood Sector
Home of the old slavery trade and still home to much of the slaughterhouses in the city the Blood Sector runs lower in price then Hope’s Altar. It is also less light then much of the other cities and patrols in the area are less frequent.
Ownership
House: 10,000 gp
Townhouse: 8,000 gp
Apartment Suite: 3,000 gp
Rent per Month
Apartment: 15 gp
Flat: 10 gp
Studio: 5 gp