ha, just as hard to answer in fantasyland than it is in real life. personally that characteristic is one of the most abstract on the character sheet, imo. when adventuring, you're pretty much stuck paying the same rate as everyone else unless you specifically say you want the penthouse or the closet. Downtime is the only time i use it really - if at all.
go to manhattan and you'll find half the young folks walking around living well beyond their financial situation. go to omaha and you'll find an old geiser living stupendously below his financial situation. I'm sure Forgotten Realms works the exact same way.
just pick whatever floats your boat and pay what the innkeeper is charging - background definately doesn't matter and current financial situation is only mildly relevant.
And there are some backgrounds features that kind of bypass the whole lifestyle level question. Like, being able to stay at a temple or your relative's place. But those really don't apply when you're adventuring in, say, the Underdark or in the jungles of Chult.
So, I use the adventurer income gold-per-day thing as a guideline for how much renting a room at the appropriate style inn costs when out murderhob... I mean, traveling.
Your character's lifestyle is based on how much you want to spend per month on maintaining a lifestyle.
Though if you spend all your time adventuring, your lifestyle is effectively homeless.
Even if you spend all your time adventuring, there is a difference between literally living in the wild and renting out the best room in whatever town you happen to be in. One does not have to have a fixed address to live in luxury.
No, but that's usually something that gets paid on its own rather than covered under Lifestyle.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
As a player, I designate my lifestyle on what I think my PC would want to do. As a Bard, my lifestyle is comfortable, but I RP that he wants to appear to have more wealth through his clothing and some nice things he does for commoners. He will, on the spur of the moment, decide to buy a bushel of apples and let everyone in the market come have one, or he will pay for a round of ales if an old friend walks into a tavern where he is performing. My Paladin, noble born, character lives a noble's lifestyle, so he always gets the best room in town when he is not invited to stay at the keep, eats the finer things on the menu, drinks wine instead of stout, wears fine clothes, and has a small group of retainers he has to pay for that also manage his animals, equipment and correspondence. A wagon is brought with him when he is traveling from one civilized place to another which contains blankets, tents, food, clothes and other essentials for him.
The choice of lifestyle should make sense when compared to a PCs background, but it is more of a RP guide than anything else in my view.
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Or your character's current financial situation?
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ha, just as hard to answer in fantasyland than it is in real life. personally that characteristic is one of the most abstract on the character sheet, imo. when adventuring, you're pretty much stuck paying the same rate as everyone else unless you specifically say you want the penthouse or the closet. Downtime is the only time i use it really - if at all.
go to manhattan and you'll find half the young folks walking around living well beyond their financial situation. go to omaha and you'll find an old geiser living stupendously below his financial situation. I'm sure Forgotten Realms works the exact same way.
just pick whatever floats your boat and pay what the innkeeper is charging - background definately doesn't matter and current financial situation is only mildly relevant.
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Your character's lifestyle is based on how much you want to spend per month on maintaining a lifestyle.
Though if you spend all your time adventuring, your lifestyle is effectively homeless.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
And there are some backgrounds features that kind of bypass the whole lifestyle level question. Like, being able to stay at a temple or your relative's place. But those really don't apply when you're adventuring in, say, the Underdark or in the jungles of Chult.
So, I use the adventurer income gold-per-day thing as a guideline for how much renting a room at the appropriate style inn costs when out murderhob... I mean, traveling.
No, but that's usually something that gets paid on its own rather than covered under Lifestyle.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
As a player, I designate my lifestyle on what I think my PC would want to do. As a Bard, my lifestyle is comfortable, but I RP that he wants to appear to have more wealth through his clothing and some nice things he does for commoners. He will, on the spur of the moment, decide to buy a bushel of apples and let everyone in the market come have one, or he will pay for a round of ales if an old friend walks into a tavern where he is performing. My Paladin, noble born, character lives a noble's lifestyle, so he always gets the best room in town when he is not invited to stay at the keep, eats the finer things on the menu, drinks wine instead of stout, wears fine clothes, and has a small group of retainers he has to pay for that also manage his animals, equipment and correspondence. A wagon is brought with him when he is traveling from one civilized place to another which contains blankets, tents, food, clothes and other essentials for him.
The choice of lifestyle should make sense when compared to a PCs background, but it is more of a RP guide than anything else in my view.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt