1. The Market

This circular plaza is the central public space in the village. One day a week during any weather other than the coldest this area will be full of merchants and farmers selling such things as produce, smaller livestock like chickens or rabbits, food or drinks (including locally-made wine or beer), ceramic pots, leather goods, and even imported items such as spices, fabrics, and other notions. While most of these people will be locals and will thus appear more or less regularly, sometimes traveling vendors with rarer items will be found there; these individuals are unlikely to be present two weeks in a row. Besides these regular weekly events, the Market will be busy during religious festivals. In the world of Glain, the calendar consists of 364 days arranged into a repeating sequence of three months; the extra day (or two days, in a leap year) fall between the years and are called Festival. This is the largest and most important religious occasion, with observance beginning on the last day of the year and running through the first day of the new year (so three to four days total). The accepted calendar of Glain places the first day of the year as the Spring Equinox. There is a lesser but still substantial observance on the Fall Equinox as well. The Market will be full of vendors at these times, mostly selling more festive items, though the necessities will still be present (at least at the beginning of the observance). Even on "off" days, there will usually be one or two vendors in the Market during the morning hours. Such vendors might have overproduced their products, and thus be selling them cheaply; some might be travelers who arrived in town on the wrong day and set up to sell their wares anyway. Villagers will be about in the Market and on the streets from dawn until well after sunset, whether hustling from place to place on business or loitering to gossip and kill time. To save time and hassle you may wish to simply use the price lists from the Core Rules (or better, our Equipment Emporium book) as a basis for the cost of items purchased in the Market. You will need to rule on what less common items might or might not be available. Likewise, you may also want to create some interesting NPCs who are selling (or buying) items at the Market. This is an excellent way to convey adventure hooks and other lore to the players, and also help to integrate their characters into the world just a little better.