Shopping

[Dredwulf60]

The standard way to find a rare item might be to just tell the GM you are looking for something. He makes you roll against a difficulty based on how rare it is. If you get it, you find it.

I prefer to leave a bit more to chance as a GM. Of course as a GM I can veto this system at any time for something important to the story. But for most things, the players know there may be a slim chance to find what they are looking for...but the player's joy of rolling enough '6's is probably comparable to the character's joy at finding that rare lightsaber crystal they've been looking for in a junk dealer's tray of used jewelry.


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Shopping for Rare Items

Hard to get items are expensive. But just because you have the money to buy it doesn’t mean that you can even find it to buy.

When hunting for rare and exotic goods, use the following system:

Find the appropriate shopping die pool by taking the region’s base dice, multiplying by the planetary condition modifier and then multiplying by the location of the planet. The result, rounded down is the number of 6 sided dice rolled.

When rolling, do not add the dice results together as you normally would. Instead count the number of dice that come up as '6's.

If you get a number of 6 results equal to the rarity of the item, congratulations, you have found someone who is willing to sell that item.

You can make one such shopping roll after an entire galactic standard day of shopping.

If you get more than ten ‘1’ results, you have likely gained the attention of the local black market, criminal syndicate or imperial authorities who may begin taking an interest in your activities.

Region:
Outer Rim Territories 2D6
Mid Rim or Expansion Region or Inner Rim 3D6
Colonies 6D6
Core Worlds 8D6

Planetary Condition
Sparsely populated x0.5
Well Populated x1.0
Densely populated x1.5
Megapopulated x2.0

Location
Outlaying non-travelled area x 0.5
City x1.0
Major City or Space port x1.5
Capital or major space hub x2.0

Special: The GM may add bonus dice to the pool depending on the situation. For example looking for a finely crafted bowcaster on Kashyyyk might be worth 5 extra dice. Shopping at a market known for exotic spices might give 2 extra dice when shopping for Glitterstim.


Intensified Search
More than mere browsing the shops and markets. This involves in-depth talking with dealers, searching out owners who may be willing to sell their personal belongings, and waiting for shipments.

When conducting an intensified search, you double the number of dice rolled but spend a week searching.

Greasing palms:
A character with Streetwise can roll his skill dice during a search. Instead of adding up the dice, use them to count additional ‘6’ results.

The character is expected to spend 50cr per rarity of the item looking for in bribes for every time he uses his skill in this fashion.

example: searching for an item with a rarity of 4 will cost 200cr to use the streetwise skill to grease palms.

If the item sought is not something that is likely to turn up for sale in an urban center, this same system can be used to hunt down information on where to find a rare item.


Exceptional weaponry

Exceptional weapons are a likely item to be sought out.

Base rarity:
Melee weapons: 1
Sporting Blaster: 2
Blaster Pistol: 3
Heavy Blaster Pistol/ Blaster Carbines: 4
Blaster Rifles: 5
Grenades: 6
Light Repeating or Repeating blaster: 6
Missile launchers: 7



(can be for Attack, Parry and Damage)
Inferior: -1 to rolls x0.5 rarity
Standard: +0 to rolls. x1.0 rarity
High Quality: +1 to rolls x2.0 rarity
Masterwork: +2 to rolls x3.0 rarity
Legendary: +1D to rolls. x4.0 rarity

Special abilities:
Some weapons have a special trait or ability. This is highly variable and may have a variable rarity factor.

Example
A Blaster Pistol with:
Standard attack (x1.0)
High Quality Damage (x2.0)

=3x1x2 would have a rarity of 6

[garhkal]

Interesting rule.. So if the # of dice rolled = the rarity, it can be located. But do they still need to say use business, value or streetwise to actually find the seller?
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[garhkal]

Gotcha. So its Roll play to find items rather than role play.
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