Ah, Dave’s slop shop, where you can exchange loot for rations. He’s got a pot of bubbling liquid, about the same color as the swamp itself.
I hope it’s pea soup!
Spoiler: the whole swamp is pea soup, the pot is not.
Even the man is pea soup! And his name? Abraham Lincoln.
You misspelled it but it is.
It’s A Cauldron of Endless Bog Water. The merchant lost it a while back and came here to retrieve it after tales spread of a new swamp popping up out of nowhere.
What’s the flow rate of that cauldron if emptied or placed upside down?
Based on your answer could become a quest or quest item in a campaign
As always, it works at the Speed of Plot™.
Which somehow becomes much slower the second players come up with a use for an infinite source of unclean water.
Good time for a crusty witch that scams the players and tries to harm them when they leave
Or…
Someone who drinks Baileys out of a shoe, goes to a club where people wee on each other and has a mangina. He wants you to stay. Forever.
Or she employs the old ‘secretly give them a gold eating coin’ trick. Momentary gain for eternal torment.
I bet someone has compiled a list of common video game tropes people try to bring into tabletop games. “Expecting a merchant to buy the blood soaked armor without questions” would definitely be on there.
Thankfully in PF2E, PC’s only get half of most item’s value when selling to merchants RAW. I like to use this as an explanation, especially to new players
What is half the value of “a leather jerkin, soaked and blood and gut-juice, with two arrow sized holes and one axe sized hole”? Zero? Or perhaps a negative value because having it makes the owner look guilty of murder?
I think I had a dm once say like “the armor didn’t work for the last bloke, why would I want it?”
If it’s composite armor like a lamellar, coat of plates, or brigandine then it can be disassembled for the plates and reassembled. Making iron plates was rather expensive for most of the Middle Ages.
And if it’s chainmail, you just shake it until all the crud and rust is rubbed off and patch the holes.
Plate would be significantly harder to get back to original condition from damage, and cloth armor and padding such as gambesons would be a lost cause
I had to explain to one of my players once why no merchant was going to buy the dirty loincloths he was undressing dead goblins of; really didn’t think that needed explaining
That’s when you reward your greedy players with a hag and a booth full of cursed items.
“Welcome to Swamp Swap! We buy and sell anything that floats.”
Lets see if this rusty armor floats then.
[me trying to sell stuff in my yard]
[I live in a swamp]
Shrek needs armaments for his latest excursion
You can always encounter a traveling salesman. He will buy your stuff for cheap and sell you useful overpriced trinkets and exotic snacks.
Except it has three coins and a mushroom
Doing business with adventures is just that lucrative.
Secondary Sign reads “change my mind”.
