Cost of Living and Timeline Between Serials

   In Stars Without Number, an OSR sci-fi game that is not the ruleset I use for the show/campaign but it has useful Equipment sections and all that good stuff. It states that:

"Poor lifestyles involve barracks-like quarters, public transport, and small and infrequent luxuries."

and

"Common lifestyles usually allow for a private urban apartment or rural home, a rented personal vehicle, a respectable wardrobe, and regular small indulgences."

  In the past when I created the Crimson Hound I considered the rental price of his apartment using prices listed in LotFP. I then never bothered to consider things like food and public transportation. I'd stated "He rents an apartment in a bad part of town that costs 30 GP/month, 1 month is already deducted from his current GP."

  Stars Without Number gives us this table for overall cost of life instead of tracking down every single expense:

  So far in the Serial it's been established that The Crimson Hound has an apartment but no vehicle and uses public transportation. So in other words he's somewhere between a Poor and Common lifestyle, which we'll average at 12.5 GP/Day.

  But it's also stated that: "Prices given here assume short-term rentals and contracts, plus the inevitable premium charged to outsiders in almost any society. Natives might be able to enjoy a given level of lifestyle for only half as much, but such savings usually rely on a local’s connections."

  The Crimson Hound rents his apartment under the name of Adamus Ward and permanently resides in it, he is therefore a 'native'. So that takes us to 6.25 GP/Day.

  Unless a Serial happens to expressly last longer than one week in the story or logic dictates a different timeline, I will default on average that each Serial takes place the week following the previous Serial. (Which yes, means that the Crimson Hound has very action-packed months!)

  So 7 times 6.25 GP gives us 43.75 GP. In other words, every week/Serial costs the Crimson Hound 43 GP, 7 SP, 5 CP. A bit cumbersome so let's clean t up to 43.75 times 4 for a clean 175 GP/4 weeks.

  Every 4 Serials the Crimson Hound has 175 GP removed from his character sheet. If he ever happens to not have enough then he is in debt and/or in danger of being evicted.

Serial Three

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The Crimson Hound

 

OSR Crossover

 

  Elevator pitch: This post is an invitation to anyone with an OSR Actual Play show (no matter the platform) to contact me to do a crossover story that would span across different participating shows.

More Context:  I have an Actual Play OSR show titled CHRONICLES OF THE CRIMSON HOUND. The quick description of the show is that it's Horror Cyberpunk instead of Medieval Fantasy and that I am the Player Character in my show, with every Serial (A game session edited into episodes) having a different Guest GM. Since most OSR out there is Medieval Fantasy, some dimension-crossing would be involved in the story to make this crossover happen.

  The goal is to have a single story that would begin on my channel, then the next episode would continue in the channel of the next crossover participant, and so on. The amount of parts to the story would depend on how many shows would like to participate, but each episode would have the Crimson Hound finding himself in the world of one of the shows that chose to participate, playing with the show's regular group under its regular GM.

  There are more details to the logistics of this of course, but I don't want to make this post too long so if you're interested in this idea or have any questions, contact me at <titleoftheshow>@gmail.com or on any of my social media.

  Talk to you soon I hope!