Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arravis" data-source="post: 863788" data-attributes="member: 327">***First of all, the Lords of Waterdeep are going to take a large share of her business through taxes. They are going to tax each of her incoming shipments, and tax her Coffee House.***She is also looking into smuggling/bribes. Our group has allies in Skullport and throught some of the sewers of Waterdeep. Now... how to keep this from the Lords, we're not sure. Anyway...*** she should see a raw net of about 15,500gp per year, net.***Is that from both the plantation and the coffee house or just from the share of her coffee beans that go to the coffee house.***In the first 2-3 years though, she'll need to pay at least half of this amount out to Hotel and Mercantile Guilds to account for the amount of business she is stealing from them with her unorthodox means. At this time the idea of direct to market will be met with great reluctance.***Hmm... she'll likely try to find a way around that or try to intimidate them. She is an epic level character married to an epic level wizard... so she'll be hard to push around. If they decide to try underhanded tactics and try to ruin her business that way, they'll likely end up loosing that sort of battle. Where they might win out is a political battle, perhaps establishing laws that dissallow such direct to market tactics. (Though knowing her, she'll join the merchants council [or send a simulacrum] and sell to herself that way, lol).***She might be able to recoup most of this expense if she can keep the Plantation and the Coffee House separate, but that will always hang over her head as a secret waiting to be discovered. And if it is discovered as a secret, she can count on great resistance from the City Guilds and far reaching repercussions.***Lot's of cool game politics there for future plots <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.***Can I suggest a combination of the two? Mother Nature sometimes doesn't care how good you are.***I'd think that rolling the d20 would do that... but I see your point. I'll likely combine the two then. Oh... she's hiring druids.. that's already in the works, lol.Can I mention again... thank you VERY much! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification