I’m about to start a new campaign this week. I was curious to know your experience when it comes to trading, and earning/ spending treasure overall.

Do you tend to have PC’s selling for 50% of the PHB price and buy for the full price? Is there any advice to avoid breaking the game’s economy overall?

  • theLazyPragmatic@lemm.eeM
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    1 year ago

    I found it very useful to not think about percentages of given price, but the actual situation the hagglers are in. Once a peddler-pc wanted to buy some iron and rent a smithy to craft something and wanted to pay with a gold piece (I placed some that were minted in Glethra - as a plot hook). Unfortunately, there wasn’t much the smith could do with a gold coin, so It took our peddler a successful manipulation roll to get the equivalent of 7 silver in rent and iron. Dalb, fully aware that the PCs had no torches and inside weatherstone was dark, asked double the price, if not more.

    Remember there is no economy in the Forbidden Lands (yet?), so favours and goods in demand will be common. Also let them know that there is a point where coins become heavy ;)