Gem/Mineral Mining Business

[Goodlad]

Hey Guys,

Just looking for some input on this.
My Dm is cool with my char setting up a gem and mineral mining business for some extra income.

We both figure its not gonna pull in crap money, but he also doesnt want me having infinite gold, lol

So were looking for a way to work out how much the business pulls in.
We just assumed i would be sending out some guys to locate a good place to setup the place, good veins of minerals, gem deposits etc.. I chalked off a bit of gold to pay for all that.

Were just having a hard time working out just how much money the place will pull in. I dont want the business to be a chore to work out all the time as its more a background thing that will be setup and not looked at again.
I will just get X amount of gold every now n then.

You guys any ideas how to work this out?

[altpersona]

for the non co/to basics, i would just use the profession and business guidelines in core.

[Sohala]

DMGII pg 180.

[Goodlad]

Awesome man, i never seen that info in the dmg2.    Ya legend!

[Goodlad]

I went through the headache of making the business.
Well god damn its not worth it at all, its such small amounts of gold for the headache involved in working out all the details.

[Sohala]

Use the upgrade business option as often as you can, it should add up.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Alternatively, there are guidelines in the Stronghold Builder's guidebook, if you want to set up a permanent mining installation somewhere.

[telehax]

Take the leadership feat and have all your followers do an Aid Another check as a "business partner", that should do it.

For cheese, go look in power of faerun under the business leaders section and see where it says each 200gp of profit gives a +1 to leadership.

[RobbyPants]

You... you mean you don't want to just have earth elementals do this for you?

Honestly, I'd say either uses the Profession rules and try not to think about it too much, or don't bother at all.  D&D is terrible about modeling these rules, and when 3E came up with market prices for items and crafting rules, they quite literally made money and raw power interchangeable.  So, anything that lets you gain money faster than normal breaks on base principles alone.

[archangel.arcanis]

Probably the best way for this to be handled is with some hand waving. Just make an agreement with your DM you can throw money around like a rapper at a night club as long as it isn't in purchasing yourself or party equipment. IE. buy a bing fancy house, drop sacks of platinum on orphanages (or orphans if you are evil  ), have a parade in your honor where you toss gold instead of doubloons, etc... Then as long as you keep yourself and party fairly close to WBL it should be all good.