Making myself a hypocrite by continuing in this line after saying I was done.
What I am against is
*poof*
I just made a 50 Charge Wand of Cure Light Wounds,spent the XP,the GP,ignored the very long time it would take (since you have to cast CLW 50 times), sold it...
*ca-ching*
and then...
*poof!*
I just made a 50 Charge Wand of Cure Light Wounds,spent the XP,the GP,ignored the very long time it would take (since you have to cast CLW 50 times), sold it...
*ca-ching*
and then...
*poof!*
I just made a 50 Charge Wand of Cure Light Wounds,spent the XP,the GP,ignored the very long time it would take (since you have to cast CLW 50 times), sold it...
*ca-ching*
Get my point?
Some of you may say that nobody would even try that for fear of DMs/Judges coming down on them, but that is just what they will be able to do, making 375GP profit every time (more with higher level spells) for essentially nothing.
There is unquestionably a market for such a wand, such that any DM should have ZERO % problem with them getting an automatic sale, CLW being what it is (It's not like you are trying to sell Tenser's Disk Wands...).
Any Player who, given a 'timeless' atmosphere to build his Wands in who Doesn't play and create in such a manner is a bit of a fool.
If you are so enamored with starting a business in an RPG, then go all out.
If I seem harsh, I am truly sorry, but the fun of an RPG for Me isn't in figuring out profit margins and production times. There are plenty of board games out there with such minute details to delight those who like them.
As a player, I do sometimes like engaging in a bit of trade, it is fun RPing,after all.
Likewise, it takes the fun away for Me if the players are given an instant cash machine with no backside to it.
As a DM, the last thing I want is to have to endlessly go over someones calculations for their Fall Schedule of Rings of Protection. That is not D&D to me.
That aside, I would like to very specifically say that only one Character ( Felix) has really mentioned the business/items thing as far as I know. I am in NO WAY targeting him or his player, who is doing a great job RPing as far as I have seen up to this point.I am just venting a bit, call it Barney Fife 'Bud-Nipping', call it residual frustration from a decade ago when one of my players would show up at 2am with chart after chart on his magic item business (ferretguy knows who I am talking about), call it my Hangover.
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