PRICES

By madpoet, in WFRP Rules Questions

Anybody can kindly tell me if there s a place I can find a list with prices for different services ?

ex. One night in a Inn's room or price for food.

thanks

There isn't one specifically in the main rulebook, but on p.72 there is a listing for how much an 'average' inkeeper makes in a day's work. You could extrapolate how he makes 4s daily after paying for overhead, employees, etc and go from there. A few brass for a hot meal seems adequate, maybe one or two brass for drinks, another couple for whatever stew he has bubbling over the fire...?

The Food and Drink entry on p.83 covers in a broad sense how much it costs for someone to eat enough to survive with a little bit of detail on what they get for that money.

Or were you looking for a detailed list of how much different foods cost?

The rule book has these in the Wealth & Equipment section. But for the life of me I couldn't find prices for Inns only for food & drink.

Yeah, it's a slight annoyance having to work the prices out of how much a certain kind of a person makes money. So far in my game I've just had to come up with something when asked for the prices of the following items: Bed in a double room, bed in a dorm, a warm bath, whores, a whole boat (one player's life goal is to buy a river boat), a day's journey by a wagon, a day's journey by a river boat, tobacco, a pint of ale, a standard bribe sum for guards. Once I've given a price for a room at an inn the players will start to expect all the inns to cost about that much for the rest of the game, so it's somewhat important to get it as right as possible from the very start. Currently I'm stuck with 2 silver per person in a double room, 1 silver from any extra occupant who'll sleep on the floor, so 4 people sleeping in a double room = 6 silver. Raising prices will result to everyone starting to haggle.

The book "...And A Ten Foot Pole" by ICE has been an invaluable resource for me with every fantasy game.

GravitysAngel said:

The book "...And A Ten Foot Pole" by ICE has been an invaluable resource for me with every fantasy game.

You speak so highly of that book I've just ordered a copy off Amazon to satiate my curiosity. We'll see if it lives up to the hype! ;)

GravitysAngel said:

The book "...And A Ten Foot Pole" by ICE has been an invaluable resource for me with every fantasy game.

And the book does, in fact, include a listing for a 10-foot pole...just to be clear.

Excellent book though. Wish I still had a copy. If you ever wanted your character to buy a butter churn you'd find it in there...

For the cost of a night at the inn, based upon meal prices, I price a typical "roadside" inn at about 1 Silver for a night in a private/semi-private room or anywhere from 5 to 10 brass to sleep in the common room based upon accomodations and/or what the owner thinks he can reasonably charge.

I don't want to waste game time on the players RPing ordering dinner including menu and drink selection, so I don't get bogged down with figuring out different prices for varying accommodations and a complete menu of food and drink. I find it is just easier to charge a daily rate of 1s. This includes average accommodations (multiple occupancy room, suitable for my 3 PCs) in an average Inn, and all meals. If they are traveling, Coaching Inns are all roughly the same. This is based on an adventurer needing to spend 5 brass per day on food and a cup of ale being 1b. If they are willing to spend more and are in any decent sized town, they can find a fancier Inn with nicer accommodations and better food/drink, but they haven't bothered. Unless they go out of their way to go get a fine meal or seek out an expensive bottle of wine (and so far they've had no reason to), they're just going to average 1s per day regardless of where they actually eat. Far easier than managing multiple individual transactions.

monkeylite said:

Here's a comprehensive pricelist for 1st and 2nd ed WFRP.

http://www.chumley.co.uk/wfrp/wfrppricelist.pdf

Excellent! Divide by 100?

mac40k said:

If they are willing to spend more and are in any decent sized town, they can find a fancier Inn with nicer accommodations and better food/drink, but they haven't bothered. .

Depends on the players, naturally. My players take prices and the quality of their purchases very seriously, so I gave up recording every transaction into the player sheets and spent half a day cutting out play money out of gold coated, silver coated and plain cardboard. Dealing with money is now extremely fast, and I don't have to worry about reminding the players to substract 5 brass every time someone buys a pint of beer.