Sure: Fair market value. Look at the rarity of the food you’re offering in the region you’re offering it, and price it against the PHB itemized food costs. PHB lists a hunk of meat at 3sp. A mug of ale at 4cp. A hunk. Of cheese at 1 sp. A loaf of bread at 2 cp. There’s a whole list in the Equipment chapter of the PHB that I’m pulling this from. That bottle of fine wine that’s listed at 10gp in the PHB is probably priced for large cities like Waterdeep. But maybe what passes for “fine” in your remote village goes for 7 gp. Or maybe they’re importing the good stuff from Waterdeep and have to figure in shipping and handling to the market value, so now it costs 12 gp.
Looking in the PHB section that prices out food will also give you lodging prices, and a few other services. You decide what those services are worth in your game. There are several pre-written adventures that specify Things like “this merchant has an assortment of mundane equipment from Chapter 5 of the PHB that he is selling at 50% higher than the listed prices.” Sometimes, that’s to build the merchant up as greedy, other times it’s just the fair market value for the circumstances.
A poor person earns 1sp per day per D&D. If that person works 6 days a week, that's 324sp a year (32gp). That means something like a loaf of bread, something I believe poor people can gain access to universally (?) would be pretty cheap. You could (generously) assume they buy a loaf every day and have money left over. The loaf would have to cost a copper, or even a quarter of a copper. (A bag of flour is more likely the purchase, messing this up a bit).
By this logic, horse&wagon insurance would cost 150sp/year and homeowner's insurance would cost 150gp.
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Hi every body
does any one have any home brew prices for the following
Food
Materials
Miscellaneous
Hi Im the nimble king
Sure: Fair market value. Look at the rarity of the food you’re offering in the region you’re offering it, and price it against the PHB itemized food costs. PHB lists a hunk of meat at 3sp. A mug of ale at 4cp. A hunk. Of cheese at 1 sp. A loaf of bread at 2 cp. There’s a whole list in the Equipment chapter of the PHB that I’m pulling this from. That bottle of fine wine that’s listed at 10gp in the PHB is probably priced for large cities like Waterdeep. But maybe what passes for “fine” in your remote village goes for 7 gp. Or maybe they’re importing the good stuff from Waterdeep and have to figure in shipping and handling to the market value, so now it costs 12 gp.
Looking in the PHB section that prices out food will also give you lodging prices, and a few other services. You decide what those services are worth in your game. There are several pre-written adventures that specify Things like “this merchant has an assortment of mundane equipment from Chapter 5 of the PHB that he is selling at 50% higher than the listed prices.” Sometimes, that’s to build the merchant up as greedy, other times it’s just the fair market value for the circumstances.
Okay thanks
Hi Im the nimble king
Another easy way is to scale accordingly, for example:
A mug of ale in an average tavern is 4 cp, and in normal life it would be around $4 so 1cp = 1$
You can think about how much dollar your homebrewn stuff would cost now and convert it into copper pieces.
There are a lot of these examples to be found online, but you can make one of your own, according to what is fitting for your world: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Currency_Exchange_(5e_Variant_Rule)
Make sure to balance the loot dropping so your players can eat :)
A poor person earns 1sp per day per D&D. If that person works 6 days a week, that's 324sp a year (32gp). That means something like a loaf of bread, something I believe poor people can gain access to universally (?) would be pretty cheap. You could (generously) assume they buy a loaf every day and have money left over. The loaf would have to cost a copper, or even a quarter of a copper. (A bag of flour is more likely the purchase, messing this up a bit).
By this logic, horse&wagon insurance would cost 150sp/year and homeowner's insurance would cost 150gp.
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