Cost of living and Create Food

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Originally Posted by Carlos

You mean: Let the Scout and Barbarian "live off the land", finding safe food and water and washing when necessary in a nearby river or in rainwater.

The Wizard can also create food and water out of thin air. And with the right spells (like Shape Earth, Create Fire for a campfire or even full weather protection from Weather Dome), he can create a reasonably comfortable place to sleep, specially with a Blanket or Sleeping Fur.

I mean, if PCs want to risk standing out as 'weird outsiders who are too good for our town' they can certainly find a way to do that and still live, but there are likely to be social consequences to the rejection of the norms of a society.

There are probably (some very small number of) people living on the street today who have plenty of money somewhere to afford a more typical living arrangement. I expect strangers view and treat them (rightly, wrongly, or indifferently) as they view and treat other street people, rather than as they view and treat people who live in apartments or houses.

I let my players try almost anything and many of the PCs I play are up for trying to be economical too. None of us is surprised by some NPC reacting to that behavior as though the PC is being cheap.