[Magiclysm] The Forge of Wonders puts no value on food or drink, minimal value on guns and ammo (except the pirates)

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Summary

Mods "[Magiclysm] The Forge of Wonders puts no value on food or drink, minimal value on guns and ammo (except the pirates)"

Purpose of change

Was thinking about how showing up to the refugee center with a truckload of food and trading for other supplies makes perfect sense, since they're short of food and have a ton of mouths to feed. But the Forge of Wonders are a group of incredibly-powerful dimension-hopping archmages who show up on ruined worlds to collect their stories. Why would they want survivor jerky?

The guns and ammo part comes from the "incredibly-powerful dimension-hopping archmages." We know from snippets that a powerful wizard is a walking WMD, so why would they care much about guns?

Except the pirates. They're into guns.

Describe the solution

The trade value of food and drink at the Forge is 0. They want magical items, esoteric knowledge, enchanted ingredients--mystical things.

The trade value of guns and ammo is 10% of normal, except the pirates, who pay full price.

The trade value of artifacts is 1000x normal price (this works out to be around $50 worth in my tests).

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

"Yeah man that's a pretty sweet bottle, can you just dump out all that stuff in it first?"

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