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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Logos7" data-source="post: 4331698" data-attributes="member: 62880">And that's supposed to be good for some reason?moral of the story: DnD doesn't do economics because economics suck. what would really happen when pc's go to small towns flood the economy with gold and then leave? stupid rates of inflation. If this happened at all semi regularly it would never stop ( finding coins that are on value with yours but that you can't account for because they belong to ancient civilation are bad for economics mmmkay). There was an article on paizo a while back about how this would work that was preety informative about the things you would have to consider but the jeist was: Poor people don't use cash, and rampant inflation helps ensure everyone is poor. Boo Hoo can't sell your sword for more than 1/5th of what you bought it for. First of all I don't consider this to be terribly unrealistic (especially if it is used but you can think of a lot of things that loose immediate value for just "being off the lot" per say).  It would certainly be more realistic to offer crap loads of gold for the sword and just increase the price of everything else by a random large interger everytime you shop. (I'm thinking of instances where in periods of heavy inflation baskets of money where stolen, and the money POURED OUT because it was so worthless. Period where people would be paid twice a day so they can go out and buy things before their pay devalued before they got home)Moral of the story. These rules for making money as a Pc shopkeep are as unrealistic as the 1/5 rule and quite possibly more so. I would suggest following the quest modle that was mentioned above if you really want to do this. and hey look the ruleset supports it....</blockquote>

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