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Eh, economy. How ordinary. Unless...
0.5 internets to the first who gets the reference.
If not, I'm happy if there is something neat in the centerfold. I like stuff such as the maps in the People of... series and Faiths & Philosophies.

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Eh, economy. How ordinary. Unless...
** spoiler omitted **If not, I'm happy if there is something neat in the centerfold. I like stuff such as the maps in the People of... series and Faiths & Philosophies.
I'm still hoping FFG decides to release a 5th edition using R&K but bringing in a few ideas from the Narrative Dice System.

Naal |
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On know direction awhile back James Jacobs discussed always wanting to do a golarian almanac. I wonder if this represents a development of more projects like that.
Getting an Inner Sea Almanac off the ground has been weirdly tough for lots of reasons I'm not gonna go into here. Having trade information in this book is one way to get that out there for folks without having to wait for an Almanac that may never actually happen to happen, though.

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Umm, so bit late, but what book are you two referring to?
"...okay, that's enough about that. Now that we have scared away the easily bored people, it is time to get to the point. This is not a treatise on Rokugani trade. This is the Kolat sourcebook."
Kolat was the L5R version of the Illuminati/Hydra/freemasons. It was a consipiracy run by ordinary humans, with the intent to get rid of practically every divinely-inspired clan and concept that subjugated the peasants, including the entire samurai class and the Emperor. It was the most secretive organization in the entire setting. It had to be. If it became known, any other faction would have tried to exterminate it forthwith.
I think it was a fairly late addition to the setting. It gave the metaplot a severe kick, revealing some important NPCs as secret masters behind the Kolat. A rough comparison would be a Pathfinder sourcebook that revealed that Razmir was set up by Rahadoum to discredit religion, or that Abigail Thrune I was actually a priestess of Calistria who sacrificed herself to get Hell to overextend itself in order to get revenge for some slight that happened when Rovagug was being wrangled into Golarion.
I liked most L5R sourcebooks. Especially Way of the Shadow, which still creeps me out.

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I can't wait for this! I love these kind of books. I've always wanted to do a campaign where the characters establish their own merchant house and trade empire form the ground up. A mix of the travels of Marco Polo and the rise of the Medici and similar families during the Renaissance.
Books like this are instabuy for me.
SM

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I think you might be having unrealistic expectations if you are expecting more realistic economy simulation ._.
I mean, I'm pretty sure its not possible to turn game mechanic adventurer economy into realistic one <_<
t be fair 'll be happy if it just rebalances the prices of trade goods, a pound of black pepper should not be cheaper than a chicken in the sort of economy Golarion has and I'm more looking for details on orchestrating trade deals anyway.

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@ StarMartyr365 - "I can't wait for this! I love these kind of books. I've always wanted to do a campaign where the characters establish their own merchant house and trade empire form the ground up. A mix of the travels of Marco Polo and the rise of the Medici and similar families during the Renaissance.
Books like this are instabuy for me."
Seconded!!!
I have always wondered what exactly my character is supposed to do with all his wealth at the conclusion of an adventure....
This would be ideal if the character makes investments in trading expeditions throughout the world.
I would also ****LOVE****LOVE****LOVE****LOVE**** to see a companion sourcebook detailing investment opportunities for our characters to put their money to work for them. I have seen some stand alone articles on investments especially the February 2000 Dragon article by Kevin Haw which discussed investing for characters. I made a post about investments in the Homebrew thread that may get some traction with the members.

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James,
Will we get either a list of key trade routes or a couple of map pages (for avistan and garund) with directional arrows and names of goods?
I'm hoping to get at least a macro idea of traded goods/routes for an Andoran campaign I'm working on, and would like to know a little more than 'lumber goes from Falcon's Hollow to Augustana and Almas'... (I have Guide to DMV, Andoran CS, etc.)
Thanks,
Zanzibaran
P.S. I vote for the almanac too. Even with the CS and Guide to DMV, there's a vast amount of NPC daily life I'll have to invent session by session and track for consistency...
BobTheCoward wrote:On know direction awhile back James Jacobs discussed always wanting to do a golarian almanac. I wonder if this represents a development of more projects like that.Getting an Inner Sea Almanac off the ground has been weirdly tough for lots of reasons I'm not gonna go into here. Having trade information in this book is one way to get that out there for folks without having to wait for an Almanac that may never actually happen to happen, though.

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Count me as one of those who are interested in this one!
Major trade routes (including which commodities get traded in which direction) would be good.
Do we have a PF city stat block for Absalom? IIRC, the one in Guide to Absalom was a 3.5 stat block, and I don't recall having seen a more recent one. (Please let me know if such exists, and where to find it!)
Naturally, PF city stat blocks for other cities are also welcome. What about Darklands trade hubs?

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Oh hell yes! I'd just created a merchant character, I'd love to see what kind of archetypes will be available! I'm guessing maybe Alchemists and Rogues, potentially Druids, Witches... I'd love to see one for the Mesmerist, but it's doubtful! Other than that, I'm glad to see some stuff for Tian Xia- could we potentially be getting more official stuff from there in future? ;D