Tangent Games releases Commodity Cards III.

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Malakite stepped forward to grab the tools. He could have scolded William, but he didn't know better. "Yer right William," he said. "But we've got to make the best of what we did get. Those two items are worth about a hundred gold by themselves." William's mouth fell open; he'd never owned anything worth more than 2 gold in his whole life. "And we'll get another 60 or so gold from the collection of weapons we took off them dead pirates. Not a great treasure, but enough to put food in our bellies."

As parties of adventurers roam the globe in search of treasure, not everything they find will be gold, silver, or precious gems. Sometimes the party will come across more mundane, yet still valuable, commodities that are bought and sold every day and help keep the world economies going. How do you determine what the value of a surrey, or a set of builder's tools should be? If a party should defeat a band of Gnolls and collect a dozen battleaxes, what price will they get when they sell them in the next town?

To answer this question Tangent Games has created Commodity Cards. Commodity Cards are cards that the GM can print out and use to determine the type, quantity, and value for different commodities. Commodity Cards II: Raw Materials only deals with those commodities that are used to make something else that has an even higher value.

Commodity Cards III: Finished Goods - Swords to Plowshares contains 280 different commodities for use in your game.

Some of the standard uses for the Commodity Cards are:

• Identify commodities carried in caravans and merchant or pirate ships.
• Used to determine the inventory for a blacksmith's forge, woodworking shop, or armor smithy.
• Generate random treasure in dungeons.

Some other, non-standard uses for the Commodity Cards are:

• To depict items in a caravan the party is guarding.
• To indicate payment the party must make to a local warlord or evil dragon so a local village does not come to harm.
• To determine wholesale cost for PCs wanting to open their own business.

No GM should be without Commodity Cards. Make them part of your gaming essentials today. Purchase your copy of the complete set of Commodity Cards III: Finished Goods - Swords to Plowshares today!

In addition, if you do not want to print out a set of Commodity Cards, tables for random generation have been included!

Available for sale at ENGS for only $2.50.