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I seem to have an issue of finding the cost for a building. My player wants to buy a house to start running a stronghold from, and I don't know how much to charge.
A list of multiple different types of buildings and costs wouldn't be terrible either.
I seem to have an issue of finding the cost for a building. My player wants to buy a house to start running a stronghold from, and I don't know how much to charge.
A list of multiple different types of buildings and costs wouldn't be terrible either.
Its not exactly what you're looking for, but you can take a look at the Cost of Living section under Good and Services on the srd for a bit of guidance.
Effectively, it tells you what it costs to live at a given lifestyle, and the descriptions include ownership/rental of homes and such.
I seem to have an issue of finding the cost for a building. My player wants to buy a house to start running a stronghold from, and I don't know how much to charge.
A list of multiple different types of buildings and costs wouldn't be terrible either.
Its not exactly what you're looking for, but you can take a look at the Cost of Living section under Good and Services on the srd for a bit of guidance.
Effectively, it tells you what it costs to live at a given lifestyle, and the descriptions include ownership/rental of homes and such.
Yeah, unfortunately it won't help with the current situation (I have all my players on monthly upkeep), since the character is going from renting a permanent room in the inn to buying both the land and house in a colony without a lot of room or free buildings.
I also can't seem to find my copy of the Stronghold Builder's Guide, or this might have been handled there. GMG and Kingmaker didn't have rules for it either.
double post >.<
Short and useless answer: Whatever the DM says it costs....
More serious answer: there's too many variables for us to judge... Where is it locate? how big is it? etc.. are all variables for Real Estate.
A good judge might be to check out the Guide to Korvosa... They have 6-8 'sections' of city... with the prices of what it costs to own, or Rent anything from House, Townhouse, apartment, tenements... etc...
Based on whether its' the 'fancy' land... or the slum sections... prices seem to be between 8000 - 40000 for ownership
Renting is of course more reasonable...
Short and useless answer: Whatever the DM says it costs....
More serious answer: there's too many variables for us to judge... Where is it locate? how big is it? etc.. are all variables for Real Estate.
A good judge might be to check out the Guide to Korvosa... They have 6-8 'sections' of city... with the prices of what it costs to own, or Rent anything from House, Townhouse, apartment, tenements... etc...
Based on whether its' the 'fancy' land... or the slum sections... prices seem to be between 8000 - 40000 for ownership
Renting is of course more reasonable...
Guide to Korvosa. Thank you kindly, sir.
Guide to Korvosa. Thank you kindly, sir.Short and useless answer: Whatever the DM says it costs....
More serious answer: there's too many variables for us to judge... Where is it locate? how big is it? etc.. are all variables for Real Estate.
A good judge might be to check out the Guide to Korvosa... They have 6-8 'sections' of city... with the prices of what it costs to own, or Rent anything from House, Townhouse, apartment, tenements... etc...
Based on whether its' the 'fancy' land... or the slum sections... prices seem to be between 8000 - 40000 for ownership
Renting is of course more reasonable...
One other thing to consider is where the house is. I'm currently reading Expeditious Retreat Press's "A Magical Medieval Society," and it raises the point that land is often not bought or sold - it's essentially bartered in return for allegiance by the ruling Lord. So the player may not be able to buy houses or land.
Several of the older guides had prices for buying buildings. The caveat is that each represents the price *there*. In some cases, the prices varied considerably even by neighborhood (Guide to Absolom), so you may want to take that into account.
In the Kingmaker kingdom building rules it costs 3 BP or Build Points to build a house. Though technically this represents a block of houses. 3BP equates to somewhere between 2k and 4k in player gold. So a 3 bedroom ranch (say) probably costs around 9k. Sounds reasonable to me.
Not really PF rules, but, Shadowrun had the rule that if you wanted a permanent lifestyle, you payed 100 months worth of upkeep for it.
So you could use that as well. It includes not just the place to live, but also setting up investments and payments to ensure that taxes get paid each year, etc.
3.0 world but Strong hold builders guild if the players looking to build more than a house.
My players have just founded a Settlement in the Stolen lands and would sell your Player a house there for just 2000GP.
It's a bargain - don't hesitate too long :)
The guide to Absalom also has various examples of house prises for (both sale and rent).
But are houses in a city more expensive than those in a small town...?
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The guide to Absalom also has various examples of house prises for (both sale and rent).
The guide to absolom also breaks down the cost in each city district for all types of housing.
This could help you judge the costs of a house in a small town.
But as many have already said, it comes down to the GM's decision, but these many charts in one book was all I needed to help me decide on this same issue in my game.
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For simple rules, try the D&D 3.5 gamemaster's guide. They have prices for many types of buildings such as houses, castles and the like and the prices from D&D to Pathfinder are pretty much the same, so they should be reasonable.
A technique I've used in the past has no basis in anything but trying to balance the economic impact of buying a house.
I figure an average house in an average town costs an average amount per square foot as one month's worth of food for one person.
So a "poor" house would be based on the price for "poor" food, a "common" house on "common" food and a "good" house on "good" food.
So, based on the food prices in the core rule book, a "poor" house would be about 3g per square foot. For comparison, the log cabin Abraham Lincoln's family lived in was 288 sq ft. So it would have been worth about 864g. Most "poor" houses had dirt floors.
A "common" house would have had a few rooms and maybe a wooden floor and would have cost about three times as much per square foot. Still a house larger than 500 sq ft would have been a real luxury. So figure your basic common house would cost about 4,500g.
A "good" house would have been bigger, more rooms, maybe two floors and would cost about 11,000g.
All of these prices would be adjusted by neighborhood, condition, how much work the person did themselves, etc.
This has worked for me in the past.
Um... if you have access to 1E DMG, they have a lot of these issues covered. Might need a tweak to be sure the currencies in question are compatible (say THAT five times fast!) but at least has a baseline from which to start.