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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1137958" data-attributes="member: 463">The Minrothad Guilds/Republic of Darokin systems are good but require a lot of number crunching.  For most shipping routes you might be best to simply set average sale prices for export at the buy point, and average sale price for import at the sale point, taking account of taxes (which are likely to average around 5% of sale value at the sale point, there may be an export tax at the buy point also).  I'd suggest that the base sale price for an export good is around 50% of PHB value, for an import good maybe 80% - the buyer is buying wholesale and still needs to market the goods and make a profit.  So the merchant in this example makes 30% of the 'market price' as profit, from which he has to pay transport and tax costs.If the goods have to be transported a long way, the sale price may be higher, perhaps over 100% of PHB book costs, but in that case the actual retail price will again be a lot higher, maybe twice standard.  Likewise some goods in some areas may be very cheap - among the steppe nomads, riding horses will cost a lot less than 75gp, and composite bows may be cheaper also.  OTOH full plate armour may be unobtainable there at any price.</blockquote>