Sometimes it's just easier to let the players shop
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"Roll to see if you know the leech-to-gold exchange rate."
Hey, find a medicine man and you can actually get some good trade for those.
Apparently even today still, IIRC leaches actually do get used for legitimate medicinal purposes in the modern day. Them and maggots, I believe for cleaning out necrotic flesh.
Sure be a shame if all that selling screwed up the economy enough to completely offset any gains of collecting everything they can carry and immediately sell it instead of, y'know, roleplaying how actual people in that world would behave.
I think my next campaign needs a pawn shop that'll consider buying anything but will seriously low-ball it if they can't move it easily. And maybe need to talk to an expert they know.
Maybe like this
Or you find this guy
Edit: Don't forget to withdraw enough to cover the pizza.
"I can give you 50 gold, after that we'll need to get the weights and measures out to trade goods. Don't worry, I don't cheat my scales."
If you're gonna do that, you can't just have it be a normal shop! There's got to be consequences:
"Roll to see if you know the leech-to-gold exchange rate."
Hey, find a medicine man and you can actually get some good trade for those.
Apparently even today still, IIRC leaches actually do get used for legitimate medicinal purposes in the modern day. Them and maggots, I believe for cleaning out necrotic flesh.