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=== Lifestyle and Upkeep ===

A person can subsist off very little and many people do just that by earning about 3 pennies per month for a total of 3 shillings in a year. This hand to mouth existence is additionally supported by festivals and feast days where the sponsor of that event foots the bill and hands out alms to the poor. 

A simple lifestyle can be obtained with 6p per month.

The cost/mo for lifestyle is how much it costs to hire one of the example people.

{|
! Lifestyle
! Cost/mo
! Max lv
! Examples
|-
| Meager
| 3p
| 0
| Unskilled laborer, conscripts; Ruffians, Goblins
|-
| Simple
| 6p
| 1
| Skilled labor, light infantry, archers; Watch, Travelers, Woodfolk
|-
| Decent
| 1s
| 2
| Specialists, heavy infantry, crossbowmen, cavalry; Dwarves, Elves, Ogres, Visitors
|-
| Good
| 2s
| 3
| Knights, guild leaders; Trolls
|-
| Rich
| 5s
| 4
| Aristocrats, rich merchants; Giants
|-
| Wealthy
| 10s
| 9
| Barons, bishops
|-
| Extravagant
| 1£+
| 14
| High lords
|}

A meager lifestyle isn’t pleasant but so long as you are largely sedentary it brings no other penalties. Beneath this level starvation is a real concern.

Most adventurers will live a Simple lifestyle at first and eventually seek to spend more freely. If you live at the level of your Status or above you gain XP equal to half the difference in the cost of your lifestyle. Your Status is either social such as shown in the examples, or by character level as shown in the max level column.