=====Lifestyle and Personal Maintenance Expenses=====

EXPENSES: each character has a yearly bill to maintain his Lifestyle for the year.  These are based on the levels described in the Player's Handbook, but expressed in a yearly number (daily expense times 365, rounded to a convenient number).  There are several in-game effects that are tied to these levels.  One is the "Lifestyle Modifier", which is added to various rolls regarding [[family|family life]] (attracting a profitable marriage, having wife and children survive the grim dangers of birth and childhood).  

LIFESTYLE LEVELS:

  * Wretched:  O bill,  -4 lifestyle modifier
  * Squalid:  35gp bill, -2 lifestyle modifier
  * Poor:  70gp bill, -1 lifestyle modifier
  * Modest: 350gp bill, 0 lifestyle modifier
  * Comfortable: 800gp bill, +1 lifestyle modifier
  * Wealthy: 1600gp bill, +2 lifestyle modifier, minimum for knights and other gentry
  * Aristocratic: 3500gp bill, +4 lifestyle modifier, minimum for nobles