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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 4143306" data-attributes="member: 40810">He can also have a warm bed if he just stays at home. What's the point to pay hundreds if not thousands of gold pieces just to travel with heavy protection through dangerous lands (and still risk death) just to get food and a warm bed?It needs to be a pretty good penny just to pay all the sellswords he needs just to arrive alive and then he hasn't even bought his trade goods to offer once he arrives.Well, there's only so much room to haggle if the 50 veteran gaurds you needed to just make it there alive need to be paid.Not much PoL if a single merchant with just one card can savely make the trip. Make it a merchant with a single cart and 100 heavily armed guards. And the price for whatever he has in the single card has to also include the salaries for his guards."What? 500 gp for 5kg of iron?""You must understand, it's actually 20g for the iron and 480g wages to the mercenaries to get me here and back""Too bad, our whole village financial resources are only 10 gp 24 silver 15 copper anyway"*guards suddenly looking grim and drawing steel* "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN NOT PAY US?!"I think this it what it comes down to.No humble homlet as lonely PoL out there in the darkness. Either the PoL is rich because of having something very valuable to offer or none of the well-guarded caravans would bother to visit it. Because being well-guarded is very expensive and these expenses have to be added to the sales cost of your merchandise (and your customers have to still be able to pay it, not good to have to tell your sellswords that you can't afford to pay them for having guarded your caravan).</blockquote>

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