jobfoxter.com - Jobs and questions about wealth [Archive] - Wizards Community This reminds me of another thread, and I’m going to say a lot of what I said over here (http://boards1. wizards. com/showthread. php?t=661220). You (the group) need to decide if this is the kind of thing you want to base your campaign on. If you don’t plan on focusing on this business in the campaign, spending session time playing out every aspect of it, then I don’t think the character should expect to get rich off of this. You can either run off to get that dragon’s horde or you can spend all of your time and effort and make a decent living as a smith. I truly think that the profit of the business will be a profession roll of some type. This profession roll can be modified in creative ways. Let the smith take 10 on his craft roll to provide an “aid another” bonus. If the party bard goes around advertising during his sets you might give a bonus for that. Apply circumstance modifiers for things like the local economy, etc. Let the characters get creative, but by all means enforce the time constraints involved in the various skills they use. The number you come up with from the Profession check would likely be split between the two partners. All expenses including materials and wages for any other employees would already be figured in. It also addresses the point that Bloodtide brought up. They don’t get any experience out of this. This is really just fluff and flavor. They should be out saving the world. If you do plan on focusing on this business then play the hell out of it. Have every sale an encounter where each side uses diplomacy, bluff, appraise. Get him involved in a quest to reopen a lost mithril mine. There’s no real treasure there, just a bunch of mindless creatures (possibly fiendish). Are they guild members?What happens when they get big and the guild comes looking for their cut?Or are they seen as unwanted competition to other well connected guild members? I’ve never thought about government jobs, but I don’t think the r

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Jobs and questions about wealth [Archive] - Wizards Community

This reminds me of another thread, and I’m going to say a lot of what I said over here (http://boards1. wizards. com/showthread. php?t=661220).

You (the group) need to decide if this is the kind of thing you want to base your campaign on.

If you don’t plan on focusing on this business in the campaign, spending session time playing out every aspect of it, then I don’t think the character should expect to get rich off of this. You can either run off to get that dragon’s horde or you can spend all of your time and effort and make a decent living as a smith. I truly think that the profit of the business will be a profession roll of some type.

This profession roll can be modified in creative ways. Let the smith take 10 on his craft roll to provide an “aid another” bonus. If the party bard goes around advertising during his sets you might give a bonus for that. Apply circumstance modifiers for things like the local economy, etc. Let the characters get creative, but by all means enforce the time constraints involved in the various skills they use.

The number you come up with from the Profession check would likely be split between the two partners. All expenses including materials and wages for any other employees would already be figured in. It also addresses the point that Bloodtide brought up.

They don’t get any experience out of this. This is really just fluff and flavor. They should be out saving the world.

If you do plan on focusing on this business then play the hell out of it. Have every sale an encounter where each side uses diplomacy, bluff, appraise. Get him involved in a quest to reopen a lost mithril mine. There’s no real treasure there, just a bunch of mindless creatures (possibly fiendish). Are they guild members?What happens when they get big and the guild comes looking for their cut?Or are they seen as unwanted competition to other well connected guild members?

I’ve never thought about government jobs, but I don’t think the r

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