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Muz
2009-08-23, 04:23 PM
Anyone know where I can find out how many gp it would cost to furnish a small home in a city? I've got a PC who wants to set up a little apartment in an urban campaign, and I'm at a loss for how much to charge for furnishings.

Any thoughts? :smallsmile:

Fax Celestis
2009-08-23, 04:25 PM
Well, the prices for homes and housing are in the DMG. For furnishing it, I'd abide by the general rule that 1gp = $20.

Muz
2009-08-23, 04:44 PM
Really? I looked in there, I thought... *looks again* (Or did you just mean the rent itself? That, I did find.) :smallsmile:

Aquillion
2009-08-23, 05:01 PM
Here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/wilderness.htm#buyingBuildings). I think that that's for entire buildings, though, not a single-room apartment -- 1000 gp is a bit steep.

They're probably better renting an inn room (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/goodsandservices.htm#scholarsOutfit) instead.

ericgrau
2009-08-23, 05:09 PM
I'd just assume that the home costs already include furnishings and w/e else you need. It can't be much more anyway.

Simple house 1,000 gp
Grand house 5,000 gp
Mansion 100,000 gp

blazinghand
2009-08-23, 05:12 PM
Basic furnishings will be cheap, especially compared with the price of the home. If you want to build traps or alarms into the home you can commission or build them yourself: http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/traps.htm

ColdSepp
2009-08-23, 05:13 PM
Sharn, City of Towers has prices for renting housing.

Aquillion
2009-08-23, 05:14 PM
Wait, do you mean just furnishing a room they already own? Honestly, unless they want it to look really fancy or have anything magical in it, probably just a few gp... 10 gp will likely be more than enough. Not everything has a listed price, of course, but that's enough to buy you:

A basket (4 sp)
A bedroll (1 sp; sadly, beds aren't listed.)
A winter blanket (5 sp).
A wine-bottle (20 sp)
A bucket (5 sp)
An empty chest (20 sp)
A hammer (5 sp)
A lamp (1 sp)
A pint of oil (1 sp)
An iron pot (5 sp)
A pound of soap (5 sp)

Three candles (3 cp total)
Two mugs (4 cp total)
A flask (3 cp)
A ten-foot ladder (5 cp)
Five days of firewood (5 cp total)

...which comes to 7.4 gp, with enough left over for some food and other things like that, or to upgrade the bedroll to a cheap bed, and maybe buy some shelves, tables, stools, and other simple wooden things that aren't listed.

Gold pieces are worth a lot. Adventurers are actually kind of rich. The price of mundane, low-quality things like that are, IMHO, not worth tracking unless the players are level 1 or want to use a huge number of them or something.

A few things I didn't list are more expensive.

A simple lock will cost you 20 gp. A mirror will cost you 10 gp. Ink is 8 gp. A set of artisan’s tools will run you 5 gp. So outfitting a house for comfort rather than bare survivability would probably run you up to about 100 gp at most... but unless you want to live like a noble, it's still not very much.

Unless you want to, I don't know, hang a warship on your mantelpiece or something...

Fizban
2009-08-23, 05:21 PM
The Stronghold Builder's Guidebook has most of the rules for this, though it doesn't have a standard rent fee. Tell me what you need and I can look it up.

In general, if it's a one story wooden house, pretty much all the cost is in the furnishings (and ever nebulous "space"). This is because interior wooden walls are free, so you only pay for the outer walls (wood is cheap) and indoor furnishings. A simple house ends up around the DMG's 2,000gp, but if you're poor you'd want to have it built to order to get the most for your, uh, lack of money. For just the cost of the inside furnishings, the SBG suggests 10-50% of the cost to convert one room into another if you can leave the actual structure intact, so that's about 100-200gp for most rooms. I'd also note that simple bedrooms use straw beds, so you're going to have to shell out the cash if you want something decent to sleep on. Or buy a bedroll for 1sp.

Muz
2009-08-23, 05:32 PM
Got what I need. Thanks! :smallbiggrin:

Temet Nosce
2009-08-23, 06:03 PM
Here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/wilderness.htm#buyingBuildings). I think that that's for entire buildings, though, not a single-room apartment, though -- 1000 gp is a bit steep.

They're probably better renting an inn room (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/goodsandservices.htm#scholarsOutfit) instead.

Geeze. I'd never noticed that before, but what immediately popped into my head was "Why in the world are my characters bothering with adventuring?"

Honestly, I've never seen those figures used in a game before and hope I never will.

shadzar
2009-08-23, 09:31 PM
Free unless you get caught stealing the kings trees. Furniture is made form wood, so just cut your own....