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Galactic Trade

Free Traders

Source Starfinder #34: We’re No Heroes pg. 55
The free trader archetype is an excellent choice for a character in a campaign focused on galactic trade. The merchant savvy ability can be used with these rules as follows.
  • A free trader can use market savvy to reroll the checks required for the find cargo and find buyer downtime activities.
  • At the GM’s discretion, a free trader can use market savvy to reroll skill checks during a complication.
  • At 9th level, a free trader can transport an extra lot of cargo for every five cargo holds their starship has; at 14th level, this bonus increases to an extra lot of cargo for every two cargo holds their starship has.
  • At 18th level, a free trader can spend Resolve Points to negotiate the best possible price, reducing the cargo’s buy price by 1 BP per lot or raising the sell price of cargo by 1 BP per lot during the find cargo or find buyer downtime activities, respectively; the free trader must be the primary PC performing the activity.