Hello!
Sometime this week, the group I normally GM for will be meeting for a one-shot adventure. Because a lot of the normal players will not be there, we're not doing the normal campaign we normally play, and someone else is GMing. The setting is a winter town (it's the christmas -themed adventure on the Zenith Games blog, if you're curious), and we rolled up new characters.
The way my GM had us determine our budget to purchase equipment was kind of weird, and as a result I have over 2,000 gp with which to carry around (I'm a monk, close to my weight limit). I've already purchased items and equipment, everything I plan on getting, and still have the leftover money.
I've asked the GM if I can purchase a bunch of spices and other commodities, and sell them at a profit to the townspeople, on the grounds that in a really northern town, traders wouldn't come through all that often.
I'm using the list of goods here, and selling them as following:
Coffee beans (I can buy it at 5 cp/lb, I want to sell it at 7 cp/lb), tobacco (5 sp/lb, sell for 7 sp/lb), Allspice and cinnamon (1 gp/lb, sell for 1gp 4 sp/lb), chilies, peppers, cumin, and saffron (2gp/lb, sell for 2.8gp/lb), salt (5gp/lb, sell for 7gp/lb), chocolate (buy at 10gp/lb, sell by oz at 8sp/oz), silk (buy at 10gp/sq yard, sell at 1.4gp/sq yard).
Basically, make 40% profit. However, the prices I sell for aren't set in stone.
However, I probably can't expect to just purchase, appear, and assume I sell everything.
Does anyone have any ideas on a system to randomly determine if I sell stuff or something? Sort of like rolling a dice to see how much of each product I sell, or something. I don't know.
I hope that made sense, and I'd appreciate the help.
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Usually I just use diplomacy rolls to deal with transactions. It would depend how much interactions your dm wants you to have npc or if he even wants to allow you to become a merchant in town, like if the town has various laws about selling merchandise etc...usually most DM wouldn't but well , since I dunno your situation, just saying to take these things into consideration.
You might be able to sell some stuff at a profit, at the expense of your character sitting in town all day instead of going off on the adventure like everybody else.