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New-ish GM here.

Little unsure about how to make money using Profession/Perform/Craft. I understand the rule on a technical level, just wondering on a role-play level. If a single check represent a week's worth of time, how exactly does this get played out?

For instance, it's the start of the adventure and things are going on a day-to-day basis. Does the player have to commit sometime in the village "working" each day, and them make a craft check at the end of the week? Or do they go ahead and make the craft check, assume they spent some time each day in the village "working", and then make another check each week?

Just not sure how this is properly incorporated into gameplay. I bet there are several takes on it. Anyone have advice?

Hi Everyone!

First time GM here. Running a solo-campaign with my partner. Having a lot of fun with it! I have a curious question for you all: What kind of house rules do you run for magic shop generation?

I don't mind the extra work that comes with generating items for magic shops, but I am finding the RAW a little overpowered for my taste. The main community the PC (LVL 3 Witch) is hanging out in is a Village, and I thought this would be satisfactory for a gritty, low-ish magic setting. But with a base value of 500 GP, this means every low level scroll and potion in the game has a 75% chance of being available. This seems a little too much like the K-mart of magic shops....

Also, being a witch with decent spell craft, she can learn a heck ton of spells from scrolls this way, so I don't want her just choosing from the whole menu. I am wondering how some GM's out there house rule this mechanic for a more interesting and somewhat limited selection.

I will also point out that she is finding very specific treasure and not just getting boring old GP off everyone, so she has a certain amount of useful good from looting... geared to her campaign as well.

It seems that this is an area of gameplay that folks handle in a variety of ways, so I am wondering what you all think on this subject. Thanks so much and look forward to replies!