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<blockquote data-quote="Benimoto" data-source="post: 4390775" data-attributes="member: 40093">I feel as though the question itself has two problems.&nbsp; #1 is the familiar one that it assumes that the rules of the game are the physics of the fantasy world.&nbsp; There's no reason why the rituals available to the heroes have to be the only way these things are made.&nbsp; Perhaps they are gifts from the gods in response to prayers, or maybe NPC artificers have access to other rituals that use components that can't be bought with money.#2 is assuming that what level 30 heroes do with their money has anything to do with the mundane world.&nbsp; The sheer existence of level 30 heroes implies that there are level 30+ threats out there.&nbsp; Those threats are hopefully far removed from the places most mortals go, and as the PCs go to those places to battle them, they may also grow remote from the mortal world.&nbsp; The epic destinies in the DMG all have this kind of subtext, where an Archmage, Demigod, etc. begins to lose sight of mortal struggles and focuses only on his/her own goals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benimoto, post: 4390775, member: 40093"] I feel as though the question itself has two problems. #1 is the familiar one that it assumes that the rules of the game are the physics of the fantasy world. There's no reason why the rituals available to the heroes have to be the only way these things are made. Perhaps they are gifts from the gods in response to prayers, or maybe NPC artificers have access to other rituals that use components that can't be bought with money. #2 is assuming that what level 30 heroes do with their money has anything to do with the mundane world. The sheer existence of level 30 heroes implies that there are level 30+ threats out there. Those threats are hopefully far removed from the places most mortals go, and as the PCs go to those places to battle them, they may also grow remote from the mortal world. The epic destinies in the DMG all have this kind of subtext, where an Archmage, Demigod, etc. begins to lose sight of mortal struggles and focuses only on his/her own goals. [/QUOTE]

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