Description

Looking to add a little randomness to the prices in your source book’s shopping list?
Want to tie the costs into the availability of the item?
Trying to work with both fantasy and science fiction settings?

Playing the Market may be just what you’re looking for.

With a simple one-roll mechanic you can model market fluctuations for cost and supply of items you want finer control over.

Works with any RPG that has a price-based equipment list. All you need is this book, your equipment list, and a handful of d10s.

Product Info

Number of Pages: 15

Buy it at: DriveThruRPG (What you get: High quality pdf optimized for viewing on 16×9 screen, print ready pdf with graphics removed, epub and mobi files.)

Sample Text

From page 1 of the text:

The basic mechanic for Playing the Market is for you, the game master, to roll a handful of ten-sided
dice (d10s). The number of dice is determined by various factors, such as the population of the town
your players are shopping in, or how well connected their fence is. After rolling, you check your results.
In general, low values determine availability of the item they’re looking for; whereas, higher values tell
you how much it will cost or how long it will take to obtain it. Each basic genre of RPG — Fantasy
and Modern/Future — has its own intricacies that slightly modify that basic mechanic.

Playing the market is a handy little supplement. At 15 pages, it's a breeze to read. The text is well written and easy to understand.

At first, the mechanic to determine availability and price of items seems very simple and not very special. But once it begins to get into determining the scarcity of an item, that's when it really shines! The system for Modern/Future is understandably more complex, but it also determines how much time will be needed to obtain an item.

I downloaded both PDF versions that were available and was pleased to see that one is formatted to read on a computer screen and the other is formatted for printing. That's a very nice plus.

This is well worth the price and is a wonderful supplement for those gamers who want to add in a little more uncertainty to the in-game shopping experience!

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]