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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 4271204" data-attributes="member: 9391">Serious answer: 20% is the amount you get if you want to "just sell it", glossing over the transaction.Here's another way it could go:DM: You can get 1000 gold for it.Player: No way, I'm going to find a buyer who knows what this is worth.DM: Okay, sounds like you just made a quest for yourself. The reward is however much gold you can get for the item. There's no such thing as a free lunch. You can get more money for selling an item than the default the same way you make "free money" -- quest for it. Considering that other quests are both more monetarily rewarding and (for most people, anyway) more fun to play than yet another Find a Buyer quest, that seems reasonable to me.Alternately, cut to the chase... "Yeah, the Baron would probably give you a great price for that piece... if you did him a favor."A third option is to allow higher resale prices but reduce the amount of treasure rewarded. It all works out the same economically (magic items you don't want turn into X value of gold per treasure parcel), but it reduces the players' options of items to choose from.This is yet another situation where things work mechanically a certain way, and if that doesn't match your personal "in-fiction" explanation for how they should "really" work, you have to come up with a different explanation. And it doesn't matter what it is as long as it (a) fits the mechanics and (b) everybody at the table is OK with it.</blockquote>

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