TRADERS AND MERCHANTS

Select rooms will entice merchants to visit or take up residence at your structure, bringing commerce to your doorstep. Whenever a room tells you to roll for a merchant, do so on the Merchants table below. If a room allows you to select a merchant, you can choose any merchant on that table that is not a legendary merchant. This mechanic is greatly expanded upon in the Traders and Merchants supplement, which includes itemized inventories for each type of merchant. If you wish, you can use that supplement in conjunction with this one to improve and add depth to your merchants.

d100+d10	Merchants
1-5	Alcohol and refreshment
6-9	Animals
10-13	Books and maps (mundane)
14-17	Flowers and seeds
18-22	Food and animal products
23-26	Furniture and interior décor
27-31	High fashion
32-35	Jewelry and gems
36-40	Knick-knacks
41-45	Leatherworking
46-49	Mechanical contraptions
50-54	Medium and heavy armour
55-58	Potions, poisons, and herbs
59-62	Religions idols and blessings
63-66	Songs and instruments
67-70	Spell scrolls and tomes
71-74	Tattoos
75-78	Thieving supplies
79-83	Tools
84-87	Vehicles and transportation
88-92	Weapons
93-96	Witchcraft
97-100	Legendary merchant (roll once on the Legendary Merchants table)

SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY

Many different types of merchants are listed here, and not all merchants are appropriate to every setting. A magic items merchant might be illogical for a setting where magic items are too rare to be sold, or a mechanical contraptions merchant may be at odds with a setting that has yet to discover clockwork.

If a thematically inappropriate merchant is rolled (or chosen) on these tables, simply reroll (or choose again) until a more appropriate merchant is selected. In the case of legendary merchants, roll again on the legendary merchants table, unless none of the available legendary merchants would be thematically acceptable.

LEGENDARY MERCHANTS

If a Legendary Merchant is rolled on the Merchants table, roll once on the following table to determine which Legendary Merchant your players encounter:

d20	Legendary Merchants
1-2	Astral traveller
3-6	Enchantments
7	Fey bargains
8-11	Magic items
12-14	Magical creatures
15-18	Necromancy
19	Needful things
20	Time-lost

MERCHANT QUALITY

Whenever you roll or choose a merchant, roll on the Quality table, below, to determine the quality of their goods. Legendary merchants do not exist below medium quality, and their quality should be rerolled until it is medium or higher.

d20	Quality	Currency On-Hand
1-2	Atrocious	1d10 x 20 gp
3-6	Poor	1d10 x 50 gp
7-12	Medium	1d10 x 100 gp
13-17	Good	1d10 x 250 gp
18-20	Excellent	1d10 x 500 gp

Based on the results of these tables, the DM will determine the contents of a merchant's inventory. Alternatively, your DM may choose to use Traders and Merchants to determine a merchant's inventory.

ITEMS AND QUALITY

Specific qualities of merchant have certain things in common, and carry certain types of items. Use the following as a general guideline for what each quality of merchant might have:

Atrocious Quality. Goods this merchant carries are often garbage, broken, or outright scams.

Poor Quality. This merchant has a few items that might be useful, though nothing especially expensive or special.

Medium Quality. There are a few gems buried in this merchant's inventory, but by and large they carry exactly what one would expect.

Good Quality. This merchant's wares are all of ideal make, with some truly exquisite or even magical pieces.

Excellent Quality. One of the best merchants of this type imaginable. Goods are all masterworks, and magical items are commonplace amongst their wares.