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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nijineko" data-source="post: 5571539" data-attributes="member: 52240">the simplest rule is to use the one that already exists. <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/craft.htm" target="_blank">Craft :: d20srd.org</a><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/profession.htm" target="_blank">Profession :: d20srd.org</a>you make half your check a week minus expenses. it does not matter if you are a specialty store selling magic items or not, that is the rule for running a shop. if you produce an item, it is a craft check, if you are selling a service (like spellcasting) it is a profession check. if you want, you can re-fluff your check result by saying that instead of a check per week, you check per month to see how many magic items you sold. big ticket sales are going to be the sole purview of the dm, anyhow. same as random encounters. most people are only going to want or be able to afford is minor stuff. if you are wanting to sell some generic used items with no backstory (that's a hint) as opposed to a brand spanking new bright, shiny, and sparkly at full price, then you will have to negotiate for it via rp. does the dm want to run a stock market game? likely not. i'd call that a diplomacy or bluff check to up the price past 50% with the exact percentage based on your skill check if i wanted to keep it simple. i would also think that any such sales would be subject to the gp limit of the place you are trying to sell. if they can't sell you something above a certain price, then they certainly can't afford to buy something for that price either. chances are, the only people you could sell full price to would be nobles, other adventurers, dragons (maybe), collectors, and outer-planar vendors. now for a couple of examples from my personal rp experience: i have managed to convince the dm to up the selling price by coming up with backstory for the item i'm selling. (yes, this item was in fact taken from the very tomb of acerarak himself, snatched from dissolving acids of a magical tapestry that turned into pile of green ooze upon touch!) [and we lost three characters to same said trap...] i recall one character who had as part of his backstory that he literally came from a city thought lost to legend and myth. while his people were few, they still lived in the livable portions of said ruined city. he even had 10 coins of the original stamp of the realm on him listed in his equipment. I originally thought that if we ever wandered over to that part of the world, that they coins could serve as tokens of safe passage for my fellow party members. the rest of the party, in fact, no one else knew of this part of his origin story, just myself and the dm. we once had cause to ask a sage to do some research on a particularly vexing riddle we could not figure out. this service did not come cheap. turns out that the sage was a collector of rare and unique commodities, specializing in the lost and forgotten. (i suspect that the dm had momentarily forgotten my backstory as this was a fair bit into the campaign by then...) after listening to the party discuss how to split up the sizable cost (doable, but would have severely eaten into our free cash reserves,) i stepped forward and "took out 1 coin" (note to dm, one of those ten...) whereupon the dm got this 'oh' look on his face... ^^ and presented said coin to the sage. credit to the dm, he rp'ed the reaction of the sage upon being presented with an actual coin from a city thought completely lost to time. and knocked off a third of the asking price for the single coin. ah, the looks on the other characters faces... priceless.oh, and don't forget leadership and aid another checks for your shop(s). ^^</blockquote>

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