Daily cost of living?

[kaynide]

It’s a question that often comes up in fantasy games like FF or DnD and most often the game makers just don’t have a plan or interest to make the economy work. But because it’s fun I often do a lot of legwork to make the economy seem reasonable in my tabletop rpgs.

For FF, let’s take a look under the hood:

Some common, simple food/drink:
Grape Juice: 31 gil
Chicken and Mushrooms: 37 gil
A Honey Muffin: 39 gil
Dzemael Gratin: 457 gil
Beet soup: 1105 gil (wtf, but it is sold in Azim Steppe…)
Sausage Links (just straight links): 3,595 gil

So we can’t work with that…. However… many food items sell BACK to npcs for an almost universal 30 gil tops, which says to that adventurers are just being charged an “adventurers tax” because we clearly have no concept of money.

Other things we see are teleports costing at most 999 gil, or air travel like 120 or so.

Of course there is housing prices.

All that said, I would hazard a guess that (excluding any post 2.0 food sold by vendors), something like 1 gil is roughly 0.10 dollars, US.

That gives us things like a $3 bottle of grape juice, a $500,000 beachfront smallish house, a trip on the “bus” for a $1.20, or $10 for an express ticket (teleport).

It is absolutely not perfect, but I think I could see paying 3 bucks for a cheap chicken dish somewhere. Or maybe splurging on some fancy stuff for around 50 bucks in Ishgard.