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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4706704" data-attributes="member: 82106">One interesting option, which you sort of touched on a bit but didn't elaborate, is the choice between making fancier high price point goods and less fancy basic low price point goods. So for example a workshop might decide to make cheap swords for the Duke's army, or they might choose to make expensive fancy swords for the nobility, or maybe some in-between type. I would imagine that making higher quality goods requires a greater input of labor and possibly higher quality raw materials, but obviously sells with a better price multiplier. The various options for price points and whatnot seem to sort of suggest that kind of possibility, but it might be interesting to make it more explicit, since each sort of strategy requires different marketing and maybe different infrastructure costs.Of course you may not want to make the whole thing TOO complex... lol. It does seem like a pretty workable system. There may be some corner cases where players could exploit it, but only experience would tell. I can see how all of this could be a nice way to hook in adventures as well. Suddenly the market for swords is flooded with cheap weapons of higher quality than the PCs can make. Why? Maybe the competition has a secret. Maybe you need to find out. Maybe the local thieves guild starts leaning on the PCs for protection money, that cuts into the old profits quite a bit! Maybe a local trade guild hires thieves to drive the PCs out of town. The possibilities are endless <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 4706704, member: 82106"] One interesting option, which you sort of touched on a bit but didn't elaborate, is the choice between making fancier high price point goods and less fancy basic low price point goods. So for example a workshop might decide to make cheap swords for the Duke's army, or they might choose to make expensive fancy swords for the nobility, or maybe some in-between type. I would imagine that making higher quality goods requires a greater input of labor and possibly higher quality raw materials, but obviously sells with a better price multiplier. The various options for price points and whatnot seem to sort of suggest that kind of possibility, but it might be interesting to make it more explicit, since each sort of strategy requires different marketing and maybe different infrastructure costs. Of course you may not want to make the whole thing TOO complex... lol. It does seem like a pretty workable system. There may be some corner cases where players could exploit it, but only experience would tell. I can see how all of this could be a nice way to hook in adventures as well. Suddenly the market for swords is flooded with cheap weapons of higher quality than the PCs can make. Why? Maybe the competition has a secret. Maybe you need to find out. Maybe the local thieves guild starts leaning on the PCs for protection money, that cuts into the old profits quite a bit! Maybe a local trade guild hires thieves to drive the PCs out of town. The possibilities are endless ;) [/QUOTE]

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