Additional Trade Hall Feature - Possibly others

[One_With_Nature]

So one thing I have noticed having run the trade hall for a while is with long term pcs being so prevalent, a lot of wares just end up living in storage forever until the next PC purge event, so a large portion of the player base is largely uninterested what you have to sell because they've seen it all before. I want to propose something that keeps things interesting, provides trade hall owners with a gold sink as a means of importing goods and keeping things interesting offering unique wares seen nowhere else in the module.

I don't know how easy this is to do, as I don't know if DM's can auto generate loot otherwise might be too much work (which would prob be the easiest way) but I think it would be cool for the trade hall to be able to import unique goods by investing X amount of gold representing trade with outside sources, and receive some unique wares to sell that you won't see on quest drops. I thought similar to how the alchemy reagents delivery system use to work where you would pay gold and receive your delivery in so many days.

You could even make it involve more people like you receive an item placing your order and you have to send pcs (using this item) to go and pick it up and deliver it, collecting the goods from the appropriate source. Loot could be themed based on where you are importing it from etc.

Something like this as well does not have to be limited to the trade hall, I expect a system like this could be use for various other things as well, e.g. Owner of the restaurant can import cooking supplies, Drug dealers importing drugs and so on.

Ps: Everyone loves looking at new loot.

[Faith Is My Shield]

This could be another way the loot variety from the rogue treasure hunter perk is generated.

[Vlaid]

There was something like this that was never fully fleshed out in v5, the shipments you could pay gold for in Ticker Square. I'm a big supporter of something like this, scaling to appraise skill as a gacha loot generating system for "real" merchants. I would personally wish to see it gatekept to something more than just putting on your appraise gear and clicking the button, but unsure in what way.

[Egon the Monkey]

Yeah. I think it would work best if you can't use runner and have to leave town personally.
It could be a nice way to add risk/reward for high level merchants, by getting them out where they might get banditted on a known route. Especially if it involves an NPC sending of HEY BRO YOUR STUFF IS READY FOR PICKUP.