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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2569411" data-attributes="member: 5143">Even with half gp, most 6th level characters could easily afford 1000 gp for a light source that never runs out.  It is a one time payment and useful for the rest of your life.  Seems like a good deal to me.As for problems with "role playing" reasons for it.  You just need to look for the exceptions.  Look for the one person in the crowd who doesn't view spellcasters that way.  Plus, if magic works the way it does in the RAW, it means there is no chance for failure, perfectly safe and very useful.  It would be fairly easy to create some illusions, convince someone to touch them and when they realize that it is perfectly safe understand that the torches are made the same way.  I'm thinking word would spread fairly quickly of this amazing discovery and there might be people from far away who would make a journey to pay for this.All the money?  Every empire since the beginning of time that ever produced gold, silver, and copper coins.  In Greyhawk...this is a lot.People only get XP for defeating enemies, 95% of the people on the planet never defeat any enemies at all.  Those who do, do so very rarely.  Most people retire long before they get to high level.  Once you have enough money that you could live a life of luxury forever, would you keep working?  Especially if your job involved possibly dying.  It's very rare the person who actually stood out enough to learn the skills of adventuring in the first place, survived long enough to get to high level and had the desire to keep doing it long after they were rich.The PCs are the rare exception to the rule.  So, there are very few high level people, as shown by the town level guidelines.  Not enough of them to wipe out all low level monsters.  Once you get to a high enough level that you could do it, you are normally concerned about bigger problems.  Plus, you are opposed by people of equal power who are evil and are helping the low level creatures.</blockquote>

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