D&D Tools
Upkeep: D&D 5e Shop Economics
So your adventurers want to run a business? Upkeep will help you understand how much they should make and give you random complications that might affect their weekly revenues.
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About this project
What it does
Upkeep models what happens after adventurers become business owners. Enter the shop’s operating assumptions to estimate revenue and profit over a week, then introduce complications that turn the numbers into story: shortages, accidents, rivals, unusual customers, staff problems, and other events that can help or hurt the bottom line.
The calculator gives the Dungeon Master a repeatable economic baseline without pretending to be a full accounting system. Its randomized results can be used as downtime resolution, a campaign prompt, or the starting point for a new side quest.
What you can do
- Estimate weekly income and operating results for a player-run business
- Adjust the assumptions behind a shop’s performance
- Generate random events that raise or reduce revenue
- Use complications as downtime scenes or adventure hooks
- Repeat the process as the business and campaign change
- Category
- D&D Tools
- Format
- Browser-based
- Access
- Free to use
- Best for
- D&D groups whose characters own a tavern, shop, guildhall, or other ongoing business.
- Topics
- D&D · DM Tool · Shop
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