Availability

GMs can use the following guidelines as a starting point for determining whether a place has such an item or not.
Characters searching for a particular item or service must make a successful Inquiry Test modified by the Availability of the item, the Consequences of Availability Table provides a baseline modifier for Inquiry Tests to find an item in a community of 1,000 people or less. For communities larger than 1,000 people, reduce the Difficulty for finding an object by one step for communities of 10,000 or less, or two steps for communities of 10,000 or more. If the community has 100 people or less, increase the Difficulty by one step. The Availability by Population Table shows how the Difficulty changes based on population size.

Consequences of Availability
Availability	Difficulty	Modifier
Abundant	Easy	+30
Plentiful	Routine	+20
Common	Ordinary	+10
Average	Challenging	+0
Scarce	Difficult	–10
Rare	Hard	–20
Very Rare	Very Hard	–30

Availability by Population
Availability	Below 1,000	Below 10,000	Below 100,000	100,000 or more
Abundant	Routine	Easy	Automatic	Automatic
Plentiful	Ordinary	Routine	Easy	Automatic
Common	Challenging	Ordinary	Routine	Easy
Average	Difficult	Challenging	Ordinary	Routine
Scarce	Hard	Difficult	Challenging	Ordinary
Rare	Very Hard	Hard	Difficult	Challenging
Very Rare	GM’s discretion	Very Hard	Hard	Difficult

Time

A community’s size determines the base time it takes to find the item. Each degree of success reduces this time by a certain amount (minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months, depending on the base time). See the Availability and Time Table. The GM should make the roll in secret for particularly dangerous or costly items, to emphasise the struggle and possible risks entailed by such searching.

Availability and Time	_________	_________	_________	_________	_________	_________	_________
Population	Very Rare	Rare	Scarce	Average	Common	Plentiful	Abundant
Below 1,000	1d10 hours	1 hour	30 minutes	15 minutes	10 minutes	5 minutes	1 minute
Below 10,000	1d10 days	1d10 hours	1 hour	30 minutes	15 minutes	10 minutes	5 minutes
Below 100,000	1d10 weeks	1d10 days	1d10 hours	1 hour	30 minutes	15 minutes	10 minutes
100,000 or more	1d5 months	1d10 weeks	1d10 days	1d10 hours	1 hour	30 minutes	15 minutes