{"id":132,"date":"2009-06-05T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-07-23T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:43:56","slug":"city-creation-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/city-creation-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"City Creation: Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of businesses does a town need? Despite what fantasy games might imply, towns are more than just the ubiquitous taverns, inns, weaponsmiths, armorers and magic shops we usually see. Most of a town&#8217;s business will be to support its own residents, not adventurers, which means that town the PCs are passing through likely doesn&#8217;t even <em>have<\/em> a weaponsmith.<\/p>\n<p>So what kind of businesses does Meadowbrook have? Let&#8217;s make a list of businesses the town&#8217;s permanent residents are likely to need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>millers (everybody needs grain ground)<\/li>\n<li>beer-makers (in medieval Europe, everyone drank beer, even kids. It was safer than the water)<\/li>\n<li>shoemakers<\/li>\n<li>tailors\/clothiers<\/li>\n<li>barbers (who also frequently functioned as town doctors)<\/li>\n<li>pot-makers (tinkerers)<\/li>\n<li>butchers<\/li>\n<li>weavers<\/li>\n<li>masons and bricklayers (and makers)<\/li>\n<li>coopers<\/li>\n<li>tanners<\/li>\n<li>leather workers\/saddle and harness makers<\/li>\n<li>fishmongers<\/li>\n<li>blacksmiths<\/li>\n<li>rope-makers<\/li>\n<li>dyers<\/li>\n<li>farmer&#8217;s markets where town-dweller can buy fruits and vegetables<\/li>\n<li>food vendors<\/li>\n<li>pub or tavern<\/li>\n<li>chandlers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A port town, such as Meadowbrook, would also need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>boat-handlers<\/li>\n<li>dockworkers<\/li>\n<li>hostlers<\/li>\n<li>banks\/moneychangers<\/li>\n<li>inns (these are only necessary if the town gets many non-residents)<\/li>\n<li>bath-houses (not actually a necessity, but certainly plausible in a fantasy game setting).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the town doesn&#8217;t need the following, they tend to show up in urban areas anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>beggars<\/li>\n<li>brothels \/ streetwalkers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And some favorite fantasy institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>thieves&#8217; guilds<\/li>\n<li>assassins&#8217; guilds<\/li>\n<li>magic shops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next post: Business demographics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of businesses does a town need? Despite what fantasy games might imply, towns are more than just the ubiquitous taverns, inns, weaponsmiths, armorers and magic shops we usually see. Most of a town&#8217;s business will be to support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/city-creation-businesses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[221,18,28,25,27],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-creation","category-worldbuilding","tag-campaign-creation","tag-gm-tools","tag-meadowbrook","tag-towns","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}