Earlier in the week, I might have said something about there being fifty three crates and barrels piled throughout the Redbrand hideout, and wondered aloud about what the contents of each might be. I also said that’s an article for another day.

Looks like it’s another day, because here is a full inventory of the flotsam and jetsam beneath Tresendar Manor, per room.

I tried to approximate the value of the contents for each container in bulk – without the profit margin baked – because the prices you might find in source books are the prices a consumer would pay at market, rather than what a merchant buying in bulk would pay to stock their wares. The assumption is that anyone taking custody of this inventory would want to move everything at once, rather than piecemeal. Hence, the wholesale pricing rather than the retail pricing. Capisci?

These are also things that a merchant caravan would actually cart around and sell from town to town – rather than a list of impractical items, and especially not magical items – since I agree with the Fifth Edition designers that magical items of rare quality or higher should be on the level of heirlooms that you can’t just walk into a store and buy.

I don’t expect that characters are going to find a practical in-game use for a barrel of pickles or wheels of cheese. It’s more an inventory of items that characters with a head for business (and a rolodex of sketchy contacts) could cash in on – if they can get these ill-gotten gains to a wretched hive of scum and villainy such as Carnath Roadhouse, Luskan, Skullport, or Bargewright Inn. The individual/total values indicate what a fence would pay for these goods.

Getting these goods to such places (and dealing with the criminals who inhabit them)  might spawn an adventure of its own! With the collective inventory below valued at 1,965 gp, enterprising low-level characters might take the bait if they decide they don’t care about Wave Echo Cave or the white dragon lurking about. Which happens, like, all the time.

Cellar

(1) barrel of salted pork, worth 20 gp
(1) barrel of salted beef, worth 20 gp 
(1) barrel of flour, worth 5 gp
(1) barrel of pickles, worth 2 gp
(1) barrel of molasses, worth 10 gp
(1) barrel of apples, worth 2 gp
(2) firkins of butter, worth 5 gp each
(1) firkin of sugar, worth 50 gp
(1) firkin of honey, worth 15 gp
(2) quarter casks of Best Old Mintarn whiskey, worth 25 gp each
(4) hand kegs of Helmatoss, worth 3 sp each

Total Value: 185 gp

Barracks

(1) barrel of salted fish, worth 10 gp
(4) quarter casks of gunpowder, worth 60 gp each
(1) firkin of high-quality fragrant soap worth 10 gp
(1) firkin of ink worth 500 gp
(1) large crate packed with tea leaves, worth 10 gp
(1) large crate packed with tobacco leaves, worth 100 gp
(1) small crate containing cinnamon, worth 25 gp
(1) small crate containing salt, worth 12 gp
(1) small crate containing garlic bulbs, worth 4 gp
(1) small crate containing ginger root, worth 25 gp
(1) small crate containing pepper, worth 50 gp

Total Value: 986 gp

Storeroom and Work Area

(2) 30-gallon barrels of lamp oil, worth 40 gp each
(1) crate containing 5 wheels of aged sharp cheese dipped in gold wax, worth 25 gp
(1) crate containing 30 beaver pelts, worth 30 gp
(5) firkins of Darndarr ale, worth 12 gp each
(1) quarter cask of bitter black ale, worth 9 gp
(1) case of Goldenfields white wine (12 bottles), worth 24 gp
(1) case of Manycherries wine (12 bottles), worth 24 gp each

Total Value: 252 gp

Common Room

(1) barrel of 3″ nails, worth 15 gp
(2) heavy barrels of horseshoes, worth 90 gp each
(1) barrel of pine tar, worth 12 gp
(1) barrel of roofing pitch, worth 12 gp
(1) firkin of ultramarine blue dye worth 57 gp
(1) firkin of indigo dye worth 172 gp
(1) firkin of iron red dye worth 28 gp
(1) firkin of sulfur yellow dye worth 17 gp
(1) firkin of mollusk green dye worth 52 gp

Total Value: 533 gp

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