It gives a reasonable idea of the prices a shop has compared to an average going rate, and how much a shop-owner could reasonably buy without making a persuasion check, as well as how much he could possibly buy a day from you without trade. Premium represents a top-of-the-line shop of very large scale found in a capital or large trade city. Rural and Urban Locale represent the city location of a brick-and-mortar shop. Limited Stock represents like a merchant selling wares out of a cart in a bazaar, someone with no brick-and-mortar shop. The idea behind it is that this shopping catalog represents what a reasonable person living in this world would expect to find in a shop of that type in that location I have this one player that loves to haggle prices, and always wants to know what every shop has in stock. I basically started making this after about the third mission in 5th edition. AND OH YEAH DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST FOR A BIG SURPRISE!!!
I found a comprehensive update someone made to my original document that you should check out, updated by u/InaliskĮdit: I'm going to put answers to common questions at the bottom of this post. Feel free to message me in Reddit if you have any questions (now that this post is archived). Also, very glad to hear people are still finding use out of this. To be frank, if you really want to say thanks for this post I made, it would mean a lot to me if you checked out that channel and maybe even left a comment or subscribed if you enjoy what we are doing. Note from the OP (): I think it's AMAZING that I still get messages and rewards for this post I made 5 years ago! Recently, I've made a YouTube channel with my friend about D&D called Breaking Initiative.