Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
DM Advice on dealing with PCs buying/selling magic items
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 513659" data-attributes="member: 2013"><p><strong>Re-post</strong></p><p></p><p>As a follow-up to my repost below, IIRC, someone posted words to the following effect (would give credit but can't recall who it was):</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In short, don't let players treat magic items like "liquid assets" - it's hard to convert items to gold to other items (let alone haul around all that gold) in the rules AS WRITTEN!</p><p></p><p>There are two things to consider here: the ability/availability of someone to buy the items from them and the ability/availability of someone to sell them the items they want. The simplest solution is: "Nobody has the item you want."</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, exactly how do they intend to transport their 50,000 gp (that's 1,000 pounds of gold) from point A to point B in the first place?</p><p></p><p>As a public service, a repost of one of my comments on an old rules thread. Here are the economic considerations, lifted straight from the DMG that your Kelly Blue Book players might (not) want to consider - because it mean that unless they hang around metropoli, their odds of playing "trade in" are slim to none. Even if they do hang around metropoli, their options in dealers are sorely limited (to maybe a half-dozen wizards/sorcerers) and you'd best believe that these guys aren't all going to be strictly nice businessmen, if you catch my meaning... ("well, I could probably find a nice set of +4 chain for you, but first, you're going to have to take care of me... there's this vampiric half-celestial gold dragon, you see, and I need his heart for some research before I can start cranking out magic items for you *Vincent Price Laugh*...")</p><p></p><p>IOW, even in a "standard DMG" world, there's no such thing as "free trade" and "liquid assets" for magic.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>--The Sigil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 513659, member: 2013"] [b]Re-post[/b] As a follow-up to my repost below, IIRC, someone posted words to the following effect (would give credit but can't recall who it was): In short, don't let players treat magic items like "liquid assets" - it's hard to convert items to gold to other items (let alone haul around all that gold) in the rules AS WRITTEN! There are two things to consider here: the ability/availability of someone to buy the items from them and the ability/availability of someone to sell them the items they want. The simplest solution is: "Nobody has the item you want." Furthermore, exactly how do they intend to transport their 50,000 gp (that's 1,000 pounds of gold) from point A to point B in the first place? As a public service, a repost of one of my comments on an old rules thread. Here are the economic considerations, lifted straight from the DMG that your Kelly Blue Book players might (not) want to consider - because it mean that unless they hang around metropoli, their odds of playing "trade in" are slim to none. Even if they do hang around metropoli, their options in dealers are sorely limited (to maybe a half-dozen wizards/sorcerers) and you'd best believe that these guys aren't all going to be strictly nice businessmen, if you catch my meaning... ("well, I could probably find a nice set of +4 chain for you, but first, you're going to have to take care of me... there's this vampiric half-celestial gold dragon, you see, and I need his heart for some research before I can start cranking out magic items for you *Vincent Price Laugh*...") IOW, even in a "standard DMG" world, there's no such thing as "free trade" and "liquid assets" for magic. --The Sigil [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
DM Advice on dealing with PCs buying/selling magic items
Top