Suggestion: Animal hide traders

[Fungal Artillery]

I suggest that we add merchants that deal in animal hides and pelts in 100% the same way as Petre does in Vallaki, in method and pricing, but in other domains. For example the mist camp, Port or Blaustein.

• Animal hides are not simply a low level item. High level monsters drop them, and there are not always crafters to sell them to.
• There is not a embarassment of riches in valid methods of making money. Having this path at hand would be nice.
• Placing an NPC like this in a Mist Camp related area like Port or Blaustein would help in high level characters having less reasons to go to Vallaki and disturbing the low level stuff there.
• Fur trade was a huge and important business in our own history. It makes all sorts of sense for it to be a serious business in fantasy as well, especially considering the exotic pelts available. Links below for reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_fur_trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5wTsYAh94

[Iridni Ren]

+1

The Mist Camp and the Tser Pool would be ideal. Petre would not be the odd Vistana who buys them.

A lot of wolf/worg spawns are around VoB, but the furs wind up going to waste.

They would generate more money, but the overall impact would be small because by the time PCs are in these areas the relative value of a few fang is much less than in Vallaki.

[APorg]

Hells, the tanneries in Port would also make complete IC sense.

[Jeebs]

Completely agree. I remember suggesting this a long time ago but you made a far more compelling argument than I had.

[Silas Rotleaf]

Also let's not forget how fur trapping, and furriers/fur traders are kind of a big deal cornerstone to the economies of many of the lower technology level civilizations in the land of mists. That's like one of the very key jobs a more primitive culture is going to have as an option. Not everybody is gonna be able to just be a farmer, noble or a soldier. This is especially the case for the more rugged, outdoorsy wilderness domains (I'm looking squarely at you Vostorok (Vorostok?), Verbrek and Valachan!).

[zDark Shadowz]

I'm all for fur traders elsewhere. They are already sellable to merchants, but not to as high a degree as Petre buys them.

I suspect it gets closer if you took all the merchant feats to about half the value, and MC buys ancient dire pelts for something like 375 without merchant feats.

My character is lvl 13 and hunts and sells pelts as his gold crutch in Vallaki. This should be a low level area but I spend my money on travel & making potions and trying to get my smithing up on steel banded mail crafts. I get more money selling pelts than selling products of herbalism & smithing because it's rare any low level players have money in Vallaki.

[Dumas]

Basically, all IC tanneries should buy furs for better prices.

[APorg]

Basically, all IC tanneries should buy furs for better prices.

Agreed.

[EO]

It's not a bad idea but the fur trader is mostly a crutch for low levels. At higher levels, we'd rather encourage trade between players, rather than player to NPC.

[Pav]

• Animal hides are not simply a low level item. High level monsters drop them, and there are not always crafters to sell them to.
  

I think this illustrates the point of why this should be a good addition. Crafters aren't in abundance (mostly because crafting is a pain and a half other than herbalism and alchemy) and no one has the time nor desire to carry bags of pelts for the eventual Messiah.

In essence, a lot of fur is wasted remaining on monsters' corpses from my experience.