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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 8128573" data-attributes="member: 6803337">What are each of the colonies / outposts doing for a living?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get rich quick! (Virginia)  Not much here until they do strike gold / tobacco / whatever.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Farm for food (Pennsylvania)  Nothing special here but prices are usually low and quality excellent.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Farm a cash crop (Maryland)  One thing (sugar, cocoa, silkworms) is abundant and cheap, everything else has to be ordered from outside or made by hand.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get away from other people (Plymouth)  All the basic gear, a safe place to rest, normal trade goods</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Conquer a personal empire (Cortez)  Lots of top-end military gear but iron rations to eat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plundarr! (Pirates)  Roll randomly, may be useful stuff or not.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Trade outpost (New Netherland).  THIS is where the magic items come from, but it takes a while for your order to be placed with our home office and be shipped back to our store.  They will be happy to trade that native masterwork +1 sword you found for a +1 whip of tripping made by top craftsmen overseas; our agents have connections everywhere!</li> </ul>If you don't want to sweat the details, say the traders will swap expensive things (like a canoe load of furs or a magic item or 1000GP jewelry) one-for-one.  You spend time waiting until the next boat arrives instead of pulling your hair out balancing prices for goods.  As long as the PCs do not want to adapt Traveller merchant rules and get their own ship, you are good to resume adventuring.</blockquote>

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