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Athas is a harsh, depleted land, and most places only survive due to the web of trade that crisscrosses the Tablelands like the veins and arteries that weave their way through a human body. So, doing a supplement on trading only makes sense, and Dune Trader manages to avoid a lot of the problems that books about economics in RPGs tend to fall into.For one thing, the actual rules for dealing with trading are pretty simple. Theres a chart showing the relative costs for goods in different cities and a way to determine random fluctuations in pricing, and a slight expansion of the barter rules in the class abilites for traders (about which more later), but most of the book is instead a gazetteer of the various merchant houses of the Tablelands, both big and small. The large ones actually tended to be more benevolent than I would have expected Athas equivalent of major corporations to be, but the explanation given is that the ones that refuse to smuggle or deal in slaves tended to be founded by former slaves or adventurers and maintain their founders moral codes. Of course, it may also just be a reflection of the infamous 2nd edition shift towards sanitizing D&D. There are seven major houses given, and a smattering of minor ones, plus some suggestions as to how the players would go about founding one.I really like that part. The typical Dark Sun starting position of escaped slaves can get trying after doing it more than a couple times, and the player characters being the founders of a merchant organization provides plenty of the same difficulties as being slaves: resources are scarce, there are enemies on all sides, their fortunes can turn on a single incident, and theyll have to do most of the work for what they earn themselves. Also, its a great excuse to travel across Athas and run into all kinds of shenannigans, which the book actually makes a point specifically about. The trading campaign should be an excuse to get the characters into different adventures, it says, not an exercise in manipulating spreadsheets and ledgers.Theres also descriptions of two elven tribes, one primarily mercantile and one tribe of raiders thats recently started trading, and an in-depth description of an elven market and how they manage to to offer contraband goods right under the sorcerer-kings noses.However, Dune Trader really does start to show the limits of the AD&D 2nd edition class/level system. Dark Sun made the proficiency system required, but classes were still mostly indications of combat power even then. There were thief skills, but the arguments about how effective hide in shadows really is continue to this day. The addition of a trader class breaks this still further because it ties mercantile ability to character level, which means that richer merchants need to be higher level, which leads to stuff like a woman in her early 20s being a trader 15/thief 8, or a man in his late 70s being a level 20 trader, and thus having tons of hit points and combat power, because levels are the only way to represent their skills accurately. Then again, classes and levels have never made sense in reflecting anything in the actual game world, so the best way to deal with it is just not to think about it too hard.The trader class is a bit weird, too. As a rogue class, most of its abilities deal with thievery--it gets all the thief skills plus the poisoning ability of Dark Sun bards, and the only ability actually related to trading is the ability to fast-talk people. It seems like itd be a lot better as a kit available to any class that offered that power in exchange for reduced combat ability or weapon proficiencies, but thats not the route they took.Other than that, I dont have anything bad to say about Dune Trader. Its a great look into small-scale economics and the best way to get players involved in an interesting way with trade, either as traders themselves or just through interactions with the merchant houses.
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