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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 7991041" data-attributes="member: 27385">I broadly assume that the price of goods is baked into the cost in the PHB.  This takes into account the travel distance of goods.  I tried to set up some ideas of where goods are manufactured vs where they are sold to give discounts to close area vs far areas, but I kind of let it play out as long as the players are cool with things.  Roads are dangerous from monsters and bandits.  I tend to have towns placed a day's ride apart so that there is a relatively safe place to rest.  The farther away from large cities, the more spaced out the villages and crossroad shrines / roadside inns become.  The large cities send patrols for a few days along the roads and some even have crews to maintain the roads.  Some of these areas have tolls to collect taxes to maintain the roads and pay for the guards.</blockquote>