Sometimes your players need to be ready to barter with the best of the best; pawnshop owners.
Wait, let’s not put the cart before the horse just yet.
Where Is Your Pawnshop?
Location is key, and thankfully, this isthe easiest aspect to focus onfor setting up your local pawnshop.
As you begin, you’ll know where your pawnshop should be.
Is your village, town, or city a rich place or a poor place?
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Is it urban, rural, or somewhere in between?
Along with where this shop is, you canget creative with what it looks like.
Is it in an open-air market?
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In the middle of a town square?
Housed inside a magnificent mansion?
The options are nearly endless.
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What Is For Sale?
And What Do They Buy?
This means that you’re able to have just about anything in your business.
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There are some different ways you could determine what you fill your imaginary location with.
This can be informed by the local scene.
Or, you could insteadtailor the pawnshop a bit moreto what your party needs.
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But doingthis can be very helpful.
An example of doing this effectively is when your party is missing a healer.
Naturally, you’re able to alsodo a hybrid of the above.
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It’s a pawnshop after all.
Item Generators
There are so many item generators, bothin sourcebooks and available online.
Some of the item generators are as easy as pressing a button and crafting a listof items for you.
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They can even let you filter items that can be found inside the four walls of the pawnshop.
you’re free to alsohidea curse on an item.
What The Shop Is Buying?
This is something entirely up to you.
you’re free to make it so thatthe owner will buy anything if it’s cheapenough.
Or you could have someone who ismore selective running your store.
you could also use that same information that helped you fill the shop to determine what they will purchase.
After all, that is going to be their biggest source of continued business.
Sothey may not be interested inbuying your players' framed artwork or solid gold necklace.
Give them an amount of gold they’re working with.
Who Is Running Or Working Your Shop?
The next step is deciding who it is that is running your shop.
On the other hand,you’re able to have them bring levityto the current situation.
Are they an uninterested teenager who is running the shop for a parent?
Friendly and carefree, old and gruff, the possibilities are endless.
A huge part of D&D isimprovising things as they happen.
These DM tips will help you roleplay a merchant NPC.
