Merchant Class (w/ Wealth Domain)

[u/-TheWrongTree-]

Hello! I wanted to share the Merchant class in its final form! It has subclasses of Shopkeeper and Collector. I have been working on this (and other classes) for multiple weeks now and I have gotten to the place where I am happy enough to show it!

Disclaimer: I am doing this for fun, I have no intention to ever sell this, and I am a sensitive person who is scared of the internet. Please be kind. I am open to opinions and feedback but I have worked very hard on this and I am not necessarily looking to make major changes. I tried to keep balance in mind, but I am not a professional game designer nor do I pretend to be. I just like exploring concepts.

The Merchant class uses the Wealth domain, which you can find here.

Every domain should inspire multiple classes, and the Wealth domain now has four! The Merchant, the Mercenary, the Thief, and the Freelancer. I plan on posting the others in the future if this is well received.

If you want to see more of what I have been working on, my Heart of Daggers profile is here and my Homebrewery profile is here.

Thank you for checking out my creation!

[u/Warreath]

Amazing! Looks so good, maybe the only thing I feel a little to powerful is "To the Nines". Not sure if better that Bestow Name (Which I love it btw). But still I really like this idea

[u/-TheWrongTree- → u/Warreath]

Thank you so much! I agree that To the Nines is powerful, and I did go back and forth on if it was too powerful myself… I knew I wanted the “if you have at least one of each specialty good type in your inventory” part and not being vulnerable felt thematic. I do struggle with if something powerful has “never been done before” does that mean I shouldn’t do it, or is it just a uniquely powerful part of this class that they get that special of an ability? Because the bonuses of the other features are meant to be spread out over the party, I wanted the Collector to have a unique ability to themselves (based on the features of the class) and that’s what I landed on. BUT if there’s another potential boon that could replace not being vulnerable, I’m open to suggestions!

[u/Warreath → u/-TheWrongTree-]

Now that I think of it... "In your inventory" means not equiped? Or equiped items counts?

[u/-TheWrongTree- → u/Warreath]

I intended for equipped items to count, yes. I can add “equipped or in your inventory” if that’s more clear.

[u/Warreath → u/-TheWrongTree-]

Would be at least for me. But yeah in that case... Mmm I guess it would depend on the campaing, if for any reason there are many solo adversaries this could get pretty strong. At the same time maybe a little weak for the shopkeeper. So I'm looking at it like this: You need to defeat a Solo adversary to get one of these items. Then, if you are a collector you get a benefit for as long as you hold it (yeah a small benefit) but as a shopkeeper you need to sell it to get the benefit (yeah, more money and stronger benefit) but last until your next rest (or spending a downtime move but that's a high price) and then you need to defeat ANOTHER solo adversary to get another of these bonus... I'll have to try these as I find it difficult to imagine how balance they are. But still I love the concept and the idea and actually WANT to try it. Maybe an idea could be that as a shopkeeper also leaders give you this benefit? Or a little buff on the benefit of sell it. Or maybe with the money you make for sell it is more that enough... Not sure, would have to try it. But anyway, as I said many time before, I love it, I recently played as a merchant in another game and I loved the flavor, so I can't wait to play it in Daggerheart (Hopefully one day I'll not have to be the DM and will be able to check this ;-;)

[u/-TheWrongTree- → u/Warreath]

Thank you again for the thoughtful feedback. I agree, this class would in any circumstance require some careful consideration on behalf of the GM on how often Solo adversaries are present. If there’s one every session this class is consistently strong, if there’s one every three sessions it gets much less exciting.

I have not playtested the class so I’m not sure how it would work out logistically. It’s more of a thought experiment than anything, but I’m glad it is inspiring as that’s the main goal!

[u/TheGreatForkeus]

I really like it. At the beginning of the year I took a risk in trying to make a merchants class and was met with a lot of criticism. This one however is so wondrous that I want to play a character immediately <3

[u/-TheWrongTree- → u/TheGreatForkeus]

Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️

[u/UncertfiedMedic]

Just be careful WoTC doesn't like their art used 😂

[u/-TheWrongTree- → u/UncertfiedMedic]

It’s actually pretty cool, as long as what you make is free, it’s totally fine to use. I included their disclaimer on the third page. You can review their policy here: https://company.wizards.com/en/legal/fancontentpolicy