Buying Enhanced Items

Purchasing an enhanced item requires time and money to seek out and contact people willing to sell items. Even then, there is no guarantee a seller will have the items a character desires.

A character looking to purchase a standard, premium, prototype, advanced, or possibly legendary enhanced item can spend downtime searching for a seller. The downtime activity can be performed only in a city or another location where one can find individuals interested in parting with enhanced items. Artifact enhanced items can't be purchased during downtime. Finding such an item can be the substance of an adventure in and of itself.

Resources

Finding enhanced items to purchase requires at least five days of effort and 1,000 cr in expenses. Spending more time and money increases your chance of finding a high-quality item, as shown in Resolution.

Resolution

A character seeking to buy an enhanced item makes an Intelligence (Investigation) check to determine the rarity of the item found. The character gains a +1 bonus on the check for every five days beyond the first that are spent seeking a seller, and a +1 bonus for every additional 1,000 cr spent on the search, up to a maximum bonus of +10. The monetary cost includes a wealthy lifestyle, for a buyer must impresses potential business partners.

If the characters seek a specific enhanced item, have them make the check twice. If both checks succeed, they find a seller with the specific enhanced item. Otherwise, use the lower of the two rolls to determine what rarity item they find for sale.

The result of the check determines the rarity of the item for sale, as shown below in the Purchasable Enhanced Item table.

Purchasable Enhanced Items

Rarity	DC to Find Seller	d100 Roll Modifier
Standard	10	+10
Premium	15	+0
Prototype	20	-10
Advanced	25	-20
Legendary	30	-30

The d100 Roll Modifier is added to the percentile dice rolled for the Buying an Enhanced Item table, which is discussed below.

Once a seller is found, the player rolls percentile dice and consults the Buying an Enhanced Item table below, applying a modifier based on the item's rarity, as shown in the Purchaseable Enhanced Items table.

You determine a seller's identity. Seller sometimes move prototype, advanced, and legendary items through proxies to ensure that their identities remain unknown.

As a further option to reflect the availability of enhanced items in your campaign, you can apply up to a -10 penalty for a scarce setting, or up to a +10 bonus for a setting where enhanced items are more common, when resolving the d100 roll for buying enhanced items, as appropriate.

Buying an Enhanced Item

d100	Result
40 or lower	A seller asking five times the item's value, or a shady seller asking two and a half times the item's value.
41-70	A seller asking twice the item's value, or a shady seller asking the full item's value.
71-100	A seller asking the full item's value.
101-110	A shady seller asking half the item's value, no questions asked.
111 or higher	A seller asking half the item's value, and a favor.

Complications

The buying and selling of enhanced items is fraught with peril. The large sums of money involved and the power offered by enhanced items attract thieves, con artists, and other villains. If the characters encounter a shady seller, they have a 50 percent chance of triggering a complication. Otherwise, they have a 10 percent chance of triggering a complication.

This is a great opportunity to create a rival to the party, or involve a previous rival.

Buying Complications

d6	Complication
1	The item is a fake.
2	The item is stolen after purchase.
3	The item is a relic cursed by a dark entity.
4	The item's original owner will kill to reclaim it; the party's enemies spread news of the transaction.
5	The other party is murdered before the transaction is completed.
6	A third party enters the transaction, doubling the price.

Uptime

The GM can determine whether or not buying enhanced items can be performed during uptime.