Ready-made shops for dnd5e, built on Item Piles. Every store comes in village, town and city sizes, pre-stocked and priced. Drag one out of the compendium, drop a token, and your players can shop.
The catalogue covers the whole settlement — provisioners, smiths and fletchers, inns, stables and docks, temples, arcanists and apothecaries, down to the fence dealing after dark.
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 is deep in 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 keeps a purse scaled to its trade and settlement — a village innkeeper's is modest, a city dock's runs deep — and cannot buy past it. Buy rates fit the trade: the jeweler pays better than most, and the fence pays worst while charging over the odds.
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 before dawn, the tavern into the small hours, 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. The 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.