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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7516345" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>There's many ways to explain in the fiction how some spectacular item ended up in a small farming village; and then later came on to the market.</p><p></p><p>The classic is, of course, Bilbo and his mithril shirt. That shirt - which was worth more then the rest of the Shire put together - would have either wound up in the mathom house or come on to the market, had Bilbo died heirless. Here the proceeds would likely have gone to the Shire as a whole, generating a lot of happy Hobbits.</p><p></p><p>Another option is that the village is where some major adventurer has retired to, and said adventurer is slowly selling off her no-longer-needed magic items. Here the proceeds go to the seller, and as the seller was likely already very wealthy this won't affect the village much at all.</p><p></p><p>A third option is that the village happens to be the home of a significant artificer. I can always dream up a reason for an item to be where it is. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>For simplicity (and to avoid the silly-bugger games of buy low-sell high I'd have to DM otherwise) the pricing of a given item is - with very rare exceptions - arbitrarily going to be the same no matter where you find it. As for the downstream effects, it almost always boils down to "the rich get richer".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7516345, member: 29398"] There's many ways to explain in the fiction how some spectacular item ended up in a small farming village; and then later came on to the market. The classic is, of course, Bilbo and his mithril shirt. That shirt - which was worth more then the rest of the Shire put together - would have either wound up in the mathom house or come on to the market, had Bilbo died heirless. Here the proceeds would likely have gone to the Shire as a whole, generating a lot of happy Hobbits. Another option is that the village is where some major adventurer has retired to, and said adventurer is slowly selling off her no-longer-needed magic items. Here the proceeds go to the seller, and as the seller was likely already very wealthy this won't affect the village much at all. A third option is that the village happens to be the home of a significant artificer. I can always dream up a reason for an item to be where it is. :) For simplicity (and to avoid the silly-bugger games of buy low-sell high I'd have to DM otherwise) the pricing of a given item is - with very rare exceptions - arbitrarily going to be the same no matter where you find it. As for the downstream effects, it almost always boils down to "the rich get richer". [/QUOTE]
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