Cost of starting your own business?

[EverSoar]

If you wanted to start your own business, how much would it cost.

Say a weapon shop business. Cost to setup, and run, and how much profit?

If any of you out there, have done anythign like this, could you give me some ideas?

 

[Vaxalon]

Stronghold Builders Handbook has all the information you would need on this topic.

 

[Thalantor]

40.000 Gp for the house.
50.000 Gp for the raw materials and equipment
1.2 million Gp for the magic items these guys always seem to have for buying magic items from the party.

 

[EverSoar]

ok,

it says, it costs 500gp to start a smith. I do that, hire a smith, how much do you think you can make a month, selling weapons?

 

[Vaxalon]

Did you give the smith a place to sleep? to eat? How about his wife?

Put together EVERYTHING the smith needs, and then apply an "income source" modifier to it.

 

[EverSoar]

Whats a income modifier, and what kind do you suggest?

 

[Vaxalon]

If a building makes money, you apply an extra 10% to the cost of the building, and you make 1% of its value every year.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

If any of you out there, have done anythign like this, could you give me some ideas?

The prices in the PHB are wacked, I'll tell you that much. They're pretty much accurate for an adventurer who walks into a town and says, "Ho there good merchant! I have 200 gold pieces and I want to spend it. How much are your wares?"

This isn't a big deal, but if you try for 100% accuracy you are going to have to have a lot of explaining and a lot of work to do. So don't feel bad if you have to fudge a lot of numbers.

 

[EverSoar]

So your telling me,

that it costs 500gp to make a smith, 30gp a month for a smith, and it makes 55gp a year?

thus running at a 340gp loss?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Yep. The prices are wacked.

But also consider that very few people in days of old were full-time weaponsmiths. There wasn't much demand for them compared to, say, horseshoes.