Imagine the situation. Playing Basic Fantasy, or OSRIC, or even RuneQuest, your PCs walk into a small town, a couple of hundred people live here, and it serves as the local hub for outlying villages and farmsteads. Now your Elf character looks around the town square, wanting replacement arrows. the Dwarf too, is seeking repairs to his armour.
Let's "f" with the players.
There is a blacksmith, so Dwarf heads in and shows that his helm needs repairs. The blacksmith looks at it. "The linings come away, torn off the rivets. The lining's is leather bring me some leather and I can rivet it in."
Instantly we have a scenario brewing. They need some leather, where an they get it from? Is there a leather worker, is there a tanner, do they have stock, can they cut up a leather belt? Let them know that if they don't have the proper thickness of soft leather its going to rub, hurt and otherwise be a pain in the butt-head.
What about the Elf's arrows? Sure there's fletcher in the town who can put the arrows together, BUT... there's no twine to bind the feathers to the shaft, the blacksmith is on a rush armour job and won't break off to make arrowheads, the goose-herd has no feathers cos a bugbear ate his flock, the coppiced wood that provides the arrow shafts has been infested with Orcs.
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