Barren

A Barren settlement has no significant commercial activity. Merchant caravans do not visit. There is no cottage industry, or even significant handicrafting. The town is usually very small, very isolated, or both.

All that is available to buy and sell in a Barren settlement is wild food rations, domestic food rations, water rations and ammunition. They are all available in half the quantities listed on pg90 of the Player's Manual.

The settlement will have a maximum of D6x10 shells available to pay PCs who wish to sell their goods.

A Barren settlement's economy "resets" every four weeks - PCs who are not able to find goods they wish for, or who buy all the available goods, can return after four weeks have passed.