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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 3481967" data-attributes="member: 463">I think you should be thinking more about bulk and profit margins - how much pepper you can fit in the ship and how much money you think the PCs should make from transporting and selling it, then work back from there to the sale price and the buy price, which might only be 1/6 or less of the sale price if it's a long trip to market.  Probably wages will eat up around 1/2 the profit.Eg: I think my merchant captain should clear 200 gp from his month-long trip, with another 200 gp going on crew wages.  Total income 400 gp. Say the ship holds 10 tons of cargo, that's a sale profit of 40 gp/ton, maybe buy at 20 gp, sell at 60 gp.  Sounds about right for mid-range goods; lumber would be less, pepper more.</blockquote>