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 ==== Business Size ====
-Big businesses need more customers than small businesses - part of the extra profitability comes from having more, and wealthier, customers - if you build them in the wrong place, they won't earn as much money.  See the lists below.  However, you might choose to build a school (for example) in a village for altruistic reasons (and forgo the larger profit to be made in a town) or you might build a village Inn, knowing that it will grow to a small town in the near future.  Equally, you could build a Tavern now, and upgrade to an Inn later.  In Real Life, you will often find religious buildings (Marked with an R in the lists) in much smaller settlements than suggested, this is because they are ofter built to show how religious someone is, rather than for profit. However the profit is still reduced in accordance with the rules.
+Big businesses need more customers than small businesses - part of the extra profitability comes from having more, and wealthier, customers - if you build them in the wrong place, they won't earn as much money.  In general, small businesses cost 1000gp or less, medium businesses between 1001 and 2500gp, while anything that has a base cost of more than 2500 is a large business.
+However, you might choose to build a School or Temple in a village for altruistic reasons and deliberately forgo the larger profit to be made in a town. Or you might build a village Inn, knowing the settlement will grow to a small town in the near future.  Equally, you could build a Tavern now, and upgrade to an Inn later.  However, the profit is still calculated in accordance with the rules, using the actual size of the settlement at the time.
 ==== Upgrades ====