You nailed it.

My comment was 10,000% sarcasm. Of course they don’t add jobs, trickledown economics is a complete crock of shit lol

Bahahaha I felt that I didn’t have to add /s to the end of that, I was obviously wrong…

But if they lose money they can’t invest it and create jobs.

The updates has been one of my biggest drivers, they have minimal bloateare, and, the phones are like the sweet spot of value/performance for what i do daily.

Just rewatched this with my wife the other day, such a good movie!

This is the most interesting one I’ve read so far.

Got a nice eye roll out of this one from the wife. Mission accomplished.

Can’t say enough positives about the Breville Barista, agree with the duplication if you have a grinder, though.

I really like this, the scarcity aspects are a nice twist. I especially like the ability to easily share with the party via savable link.

While a little off topic for a cost & scarcity standpoint, Ive found using ChatGPT is a fantastic brainstorming tool for on-the spot/ interesting shops.

I use this template for pretty good results for our settings:

Using the D&D 5th edition rules, please provide the name of the shop, a succinct description of the outside and inside, shop owner description (include gender and race), their name, and one or two unique items the players could obtain from the shop from the following prompts:

Shop themes: random

Shop specialty: Dried food

Part of town the shop is located in: outskirts of town

Love it. Simple & elegant.

To build on the idea, if a bookshelf doesn’t fit the vibe of the area you could use light hitting crystal prisms that put out color, that the party could rotate to get the right color alignment or have them shine their light on the door or a spot on the wall or floor.

6 is doable but I find i have to spend more conscious efforts ensuring everyone stays engaged. It can be easy to zone out or feel left out when 5 other people have things they want to accomplish. If you feel like you can have a good effective zero session where you talk through your thoughts on the larger group to make sure everyone is aligned it should be ok… I could imagine with 6 randos it might be a challenge, but idk, I’ve always played with friends in-person or online so take my perspective with some grains of salt :P.