Simple Shop & Craft 5e

Simple Shop & Craft 5e brings the shop and the workshop to the table. GMs stock the shelves and write the recipes; players buy, sell, haggle, and craft straight from their own character sheet.

No coin changes hands and no craft begins without the GM's word — every purchase, sale, and craft order goes out as a confirmation chat card first.

Highlights

• Stand up as many shops as a campaign needs. Each one keeps its own buy/sell modifiers, Settlement Cap, and money pool; stock it by item identifier or a direct UUID, then let players buy and sell straight from their own character sheet — restocking, price overrides, and per-item caps are one click away for the GM.
• Roll up magic items that are the real deal. Filter by type, subtype, and Rarity, and the generator doesn't hand back a placeholder — a "+1 Dagger" comes out as a genuine enchanted Dagger, and a Spell Scroll arrives with its actual spell already inscribed.
• Every search runs through the Compendium Browser. Lookups resolve by identifier against whatever sources a GM has enabled there, so a shop's stock keeps working even as compendiums get added, swapped, or retired.
• Haggling and per-player deals. A skill check against the shopkeeper's attitude shaves a temporary discount off the shop's prices on a success; GMs can also set a fixed buy/sell discount for an individual player, which stacks additively on top of the shop's own modifier.
• Full Downtime Crafting, per the 2024 PHB/DMG rules. GMs write the recipe — target item, materials, tool, duration — players supply the goods and put in the workdays; progress lives on a real in-progress item, and the finished piece appears the moment the clock runs out.

Shops & Trading

The "Shop & Craft" window — opened via its icon at the top of the Items sidebar tab — is where a GM builds out a campaign's shops, and where players go to open one for themselves.

• Creating a shop starts from a short prompt: give it a name, and optionally pick a Starter Pack — a ready-made set of stock for a common shop type (Blacksmith, Alchemist, Tavern, General Store, Magic Shop, Blackmarket) — to skip populating it item by item.
• Active and Inactive shops are split into their own sections. An Inactive shop stays invisible to players — it simply doesn't appear in their list — while the GM keeps full access to finish setting it up. Toggle it Active once it's ready for business.
• Show to All Players pushes a shop open on every connected client immediately, bypassing the list entirely — useful for putting a shop in front of the party the moment it matters, without asking them to go find it themselves.
• GMs can duplicate or delete a shop directly from the list.
• The shop list and the Craft tab's recipe list both support search, filtering, and sorting for quick navigation.

Shop Manager

Buy & Sell

• The Buy and Sell tabs list every item's price, weight, and stock; each line has its own +/- stepper for adding it to the cart.
• Adding items pulls from the Compendium Browser and stores them by identifier — resolved against whichever pack matches the world's D&D rules version when one is available — a modern (2024) table prefers PHB/DMG content over a matching SRD (2014) entry, but falls back to whatever's found (including the world's own Items) when nothing rules-matching exists. Dragging an item in instead stores it by UUID, for one-off pieces with no matching compendium entry.
• Fill from Table draws items straight from a RollTable into the shop's stock, resolving each result the same way as adding it by hand.
• Search, filter by type, and sort by name or price to navigate a large Buy or Sell table quickly.
• Buying an item the character already owns (matched by identifier) increases its quantity instead of creating a duplicate — containers are the exception, since each one holds its own separate contents.
• Items sold as a bundle — ammunition and other stackable gear — are bought as a set, but a player selling one back to the shop always sells a single piece; the price is divided down to match.
• Stock is tracked per item with three modes — Normal (capped, restocks), Unlimited (untracked), or Exclude (tracked but never auto-restocked, e.g. a unique magic item). A shop's Vendor Settings dialog sets a default max stock per item type, plus a Magical Items rule deciding which magic types skip that default and start Excluded instead; any item can still override the default from its own stock dialog.
• The Settlement Cap enforces the DMG 2024 guidance on the priciest single item a settlement's size can support — anything above it is hidden from players and flagged for the GM, optionally applying to sales too.
• The shop's money pool has a Current and a Max value, set from Vendor Settings (which also holds a Purchase Only toggle to disable selling entirely). Current can run past Max as sales come in; hitting "Reset Stock & Shop Money" caps it back down to Max and restocks every Normal-mode item.
• On the days a GM picks, a shop automatically restocks and clears failed-haggle lockouts at the next in-game day change — this needs dnd5e's own Calendar Configuration (with daily recovery) or the Calendaria module active to track elapsed days. Opening Hours, Closed Weekdays, Closed Festivals, and a manual Status Override (Automatic/Force Open/Force Closed) all live on the shop's Description tab alongside its Location and free-text description; a closed shop can't be opened by players and shows a warning to the GM.
• The header shows an Icon, the Owner (a linked NPC), and the Buy/Sell modifiers at a glance.
• Every purchase or sale goes out as a chat card for GM confirmation — accepting it writes or removes the items and adjusts currency immediately.
• Final prices always round down to the nearest copper piece.
• Platinum is left out of price breakdowns by default — capped at the world's own default currency — though it still folds correctly into the underlying copper math, and the shop's own money pool editor lists every currency the world has configured, platinum included.

Shop sheet

Vendor Settings

Shopping cart

Purchase confirmation

Magic Item Generator

• Filters stack per submission: pick one or more item types (Weapon, Equipment, Consumable, …), each with its own subtype filter — e.g. "Weapons: Martial only" and "Equipment: Wondrous only" combine into a single roll. A multi-select Rarity filter (including a Mundane option) and an Any/Magical Only/Mundane control apply across every selected type, and a count slider rolls up to ten items at once.
• Selecting the Scroll subtype under Consumables unlocks spell filters — school, class (drawn from the same registered spell lists the Compendium Browser uses), level, and ritual-only — and each scroll is drawn straight from a matching spell, not just a random scroll shell.
• The underlying search runs through the Compendium Browser, matched by identifier, the same way Buy tab entries are.
• Enchant templates resolve into the genuine item they describe: rolling a "+1, +2, or +3 Weapon" template against a Dagger produces an actual "+1 Dagger", built by pairing a real base item with the enchantment's effect.
• Price comes from whichever the enchantment effect itself defines first; failing that, from the enchant item's own listed price; and only as a last resort from the same rarity-based default table used elsewhere in the shop.
• A purchased Spell Scroll gets its identifier rewritten to include its level and the spell it carries, so two different scrolls never collide or get treated as the same item.
• Rolled items shown in the Buy tab that don't already exist as their own compendium document — synthesized enchant results, scrolls tied to a spell — are placeholders assembled purely for display. They aren't a real item yet, so their sheet can't be edited, and only become one once the purchase goes through.
• Ammunition without its own listed price defaults to a tenth of its rarity's consumable value per piece, per the DMG 2024 guidance that ten pieces equal one potion of the same rarity.

Generate Item dialog

Discounts & Haggling

• The shop's own Buy and Sell modifiers apply to every purchase and sale by default (0% and -50%).
• Beyond that shop-wide rate, any single item can carry its own price override and its own discount override, layered on top.
• Certain item types — gemstones and art objects, by default, configurable per shop — are Fixed-Value: their price never takes any discount or markup, shop-wide or per-item.
• Every price carries a tooltip breaking down exactly which modifiers applied — item override, Fixed-Value, shop rate, player override — down to the final percentage.
• Either a player's own character or the shared Party actor can buy and sell, when both are eligible.
• Per-player discounts live in their own dialog: drag an actor in, then set a buy/sell percentage for them by hand — nothing here is computed automatically.
• Haggling opens a roll dialog for a Charisma skill against a DC set by the shop NPC — the NPC's Intelligence score, floored at 15, per the rules. The NPC's attitude toward the party grants advantage (Friendly) or disadvantage (Hostile), also per the rules.
• The roll itself never touches the shop's percentages — there's no official formula for how big a haggled discount should be, so the GM decides and applies it by hand through the Player Discounts dialog.
• A failed haggle locks that player out of trying again with this shop for 24 hours, per RAW — it clears automatically at the next in-game day change (same calendar requirement as restocking), or a GM can lift it early by hand from the Player Discounts dialog.

Haggle dialog

Player discounts

Price modifier breakdown

Crafting

Creating Recipes

• The Craft tab lists every recipe grouped by its target item's type, so players can see at a glance what's available to make, its material value and crafting duration, and which tool/skill proficiencies it needs.
• A recipe can be open to every player, or locked down to a specific list of actors.
• Building one starts with a target item — required — picked from the Compendium Browser or dropped in directly by UUID, plus how many of it the recipe produces per craft.
• From there a GM sets the material value threshold, the required tool proficiency (with an optional Arcana-style skill proficiency requirement, auto-suggested for magic target items), whether freeform substitutes are allowed, and a duration. Price and duration default to the target item's rules-based cost — with the DMG's own exceptions for Spell Scrolls (cost by spell level) and the Potion of Healing (1 day / 25 GP) used instead of the generic rarity formula — or a recipe can ignore crafting value entirely and rely only on its material list.
• Materials come either as a fixed item reference or a rule (item type, subtype, and/or a minimum value), matched by identifier the same way the target item is, or dropped in directly by UUID. By default only the total material value needs to clear the threshold — a player can mix and match, or fill any gap with freeform substitutes/gold — but a GM can mark any material Required, with its own required quantity, to force it into every craft regardless of value.
• A tool can be claimed as accessible without owning it — Allow Workshop Override — for recipes tied to a fixed workshop rather than a personal toolkit.
• The Recipe Editor flags a fixed material whose identifier won't reliably match an owned item, and a target/material reference that can't currently be resolved at all.

Recipe editor

Recipe list

Crafting an Item

• Starting a craft opens a player-facing dialog: pick the tool (if the recipe allows more than one), choose which owned materials to contribute, and optionally fill any remaining value gap with gold.
• Starting it sends a chat card that needs GM confirmation before anything is consumed.
• Once confirmed, the materials and gold are spent and an in-progress craft item spawns directly in the character's inventory.
• Clicking the item's activity advances progress by the recipe's own per-use duration (a workday, by DMG default, when the recipe doesn't set one) once per Long Rest.
• If that activity ever gets deleted by accident, it's recreated automatically the next time the sheet renders; the in-progress item itself is not.
• Once progress reaches the full duration, the in-progress item is replaced by the real target item.
• If the character already owns an item with the same identifier, the finished item stacks onto it instead of creating a duplicate.

Start Craft dialog	Craft confirmation
In-progress craft item