Seventeen shops, each in village, town and city sizes — 51 ready-made
merchants with 1,351 stock lines, built on Item Piles. Drag one out of the
compendium, drop a token, and your players can shop.
Adventurers' Store · Alchemists & Apothecaries · Arcane Store · Armourer &
Blacksmiths · Criminal & Illicit Store · Dock · Druidic Store · Fletcher &
Woodworker · General Store · Inn & Tavern · Jeweler · Leatherworker · Musical
Store · Stable · Tailor & Textile Store · Temple & Faith Store · Tinkering Store
Shops that behave like shops
Stock is rolled, not flat. How much a merchant has depends on what the thing
costs and how big the settlement is. A village chandler has forty candles; a
city armourer may or may not have a suit of plate today. Every copy of a shop
differs, and expensive goods can simply be out.
Coin is finite. Each shop has a purse scaled to its trade and settlement —
40 gp for a village innkeeper, 12,500 for a city dock — and cannot buy past it.
Most pay 50% of list; the jeweler pays 60%, and the fence pays 35% while
charging 125%.
Merchants only buy what they deal in. A fletcher takes weapons and
ammunition but not plate armour. A jeweler takes gems and jewellery but not a
galley. Each shop's buy filter is derived from its own stock, so it can never
refuse something it sells.
Trading hours and restocking. Every shop opens and closes on its own
schedule — the dock at 05:00, the tavern until 02:00, the fence only after
dark — and can restock each morning off Foundry's own world clock. Or restock
on demand from the Populate Items tab.
Services you can actually sell. 56 goods the rules describe in their food,
lodging, spellcasting and mounts tables but never publish as items: ale, meals,
rooms by the night, stabling, feed, coach rides, ship passage, spellcasting by
level, mounts, saddles, carts and ships. Without them an inn, a stable and a
dock have almost nothing to trade. Ale, bread, cheese and wine work with Simple
Nutrition 5e, and can count as drink rather than food.
Requirements
Requires Item Piles and its dnd5e extension. Built and verified on
Foundry V14 with dnd5e 5.3.3.
No book modules are needed, or used — everything comes from SRD 5.2
(CC-BY-4.0), so it works in any dnd5e world and redistributes no paid content.
Inspired by The Inspired Arcana's free homebrew shop guide.