Merchants Rising

In Merchants Rising, you are more than an adventurer! You are an entrepreneur in a rapidly industrializing fantasy world. Start with a modest business, caravan, or workshop and grow your influence into a sprawling commercial dynasty through clever deals, frontier expansion, political maneuvering, and calculated? risk.

Using a fast, rules-light system, every decision becomes part of your story. Negotiate lucrative trade contracts, establish thriving settlements, found powerful guilds, invest in rival businesses, command fleets of sailing ships, steamships, and airships, or explore dangerous frontiers in search of the mysterious Kuarvex, the magical resource fueling the industrial revolution.

Whether you choose to become a respected industrialist, a daring smuggler-baron, a frontier prospector, or a merchant prince whose name becomes synonymous with wealth, your journal chronicles every success, setback, rivalry, and triumph.

Inside you'll find:

• Six unique merchant playbooks with distinct business strategies
• Build businesses across crafting, trade, scholarship, freight, food services, or roguery
• Found settlements, establish guilds, and grow an economic empire
• Travel by wagon, sailing ship, steamship, or airship
• Dynamic oracle tables, complications, rivals, investments, and market events
• Lightweight wealth and progression systems focused on storytelling, not bookkeeping

If you've ever wanted to play the merchant instead of the hero, Merchants Rising lets you write your story of ambition, commerce, and legacy in a living industrial fantasy world.