Author: MrTom
Component Crafting: How to Stop Adventurers from Breaking Your Game’s Magic Item Economy
A Guide to Magic Item Balance Through Systematic Scarcity Learn how to balance D&D’s magic item crafting system using monster components, CR-based encounters, and economic principles that create adventure hooks while preventing market flooding....
The Economy of the Copper Dragon
Nothing says “economic development” quite like a giggling wyrm with a portfolio A Most Unusual Business Meeting “You’re telling me,” wheezed the merchant as he counted his coins for the third time, “that in...
How Medieval Price Wars Can Save Your DnD Economy
Your players just asked how much a war elephant costs, and you’re frantically researching “medieval livestock prices” while they wait. Meanwhile, another player wants to know why the village blacksmith has better inventory than...
The Economy of the Griffon
Where gold takes wing, and a 500-pound lion-eagle becomes your best business partner What happens when a creature that can carry half a ton over mountain ranges in hours disrupts trade routes that took...