<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=331477.msg15945257#msg15945257">Quote from: Muse on 08-08-2021, 06:23:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So...  If I'm reading this right?  <br/><br/>i have an alchemy and potions business.  i have my followers employed to work there (mostly adepts and experts with max ranks in Craft: Alchemy. The Adepts have Brew Potion) and a variety of poppets and minor golems providing security, manual labor, and tea service.  :D  They create useful magical items and minor potions for stock, and work comissions.  <br/><br/>That's a medium sized buisness with two shifts?  So I have 1d20+26 for my profit check?  and you assumed take 10 to get 3,600?  <br/><br/>+ I did two days a week of my own work manufacturing and pulled in another 1,500?  <br/><br/>On top of that I took as much trolger blood as I could reasonably harvest, made reasonably sure it was safe to use, and created superior troll styptics.  How many do i get?  Does that call for a roll?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Right, your business has a mix of employees to handle multiple crafting projects and the myriad of customers that choose to browse your alchemy shop.<br/><br/>I did not allocate anything for the construction of golems or poppets so you'd have to reduce your profit modifier by -2 for every 2 small poppets or 6 tiny poppets you wanted (assuming they are not augmented and cost more) or have built them out of the other coin Akari had/gets.  Otherwise you're correct, the base profit check for a medium sized business is 1d20+26*100 gold.  The 'take 10' is the average profit you can expect to earn each month but you cannot actually take 10 on your check, that's why I also included the range of expected profits with each option<br/>- One option could be paying for poppets/golems out of Akari's profits.  A portion of what her business earns goes towards artificial assistants and golems, each month making progress towards or completing them based on Akari's check if she's got the time or her employee's checks to prep the bodies until Akari returns to animate them.<br/><br/>The 1,500 gold akari 'earned' is a comparative example between her working alone with her skill check versus creating a business with employees.  Akari can still use her check to craft items but those items, if not used herself, would be displayed and sold through her business rather than by Akari directly.  Akari owns an alchemy shop big enough that she only has to check in now and then, her hirelings will handle day to day things so it'll generate a passive background income without needing Akari to put in 160 hours a month doing the work herself.<br/>- I also remembered that without a business permit anything Akari sells would be at half price, so on her own she'd really only earn 300-400 gold per month without going through a business of her own.<br/><br/>Even with 'free' labor there is still the cost of supplies, upkeep and repair of the shop, potential advertising, taxes, and other things that get really tedious when itemizing costs.  It's easier to set up a single check to figure profits, though after this first month I will roll to see if something happens to the businesses before your profit checks.  Just think if you had a clumsy employee, every day breaking a flask and ruining a project...and keeping track of the lost revenue and new material cost 20+ times each month.<br/><br/>As for the trollgre styptics I'm assuming Nevine allowed Akari to harvest blood before animating the corpses.  That means Akari could get up to 15 to use or for her shop to sell.  Due to the cost of production (the final market value) Akari completed 12 styptics over the month with enough remaining materials for 3 more (which her employees can handle, they'll just take longer than Akari would).  While safe to use the styptics do cause females to crave the largest cock they can see and fit inside herself.  Males crave as much pussy as they can get and have the vigor to handle more than one.  As for PCs, it's whatever the individual's preference is though I doubt any one of you would fail a DC 18 fort save unless you did so willingly.