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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3393744" data-attributes="member: 4937">Actually, absurdly wealthy by the standards of those living around them.  If we assume the 1st edition wealth scale, then a gold peice ought to be worth about $1000 equivalent.  That means starting characters have managed to accumulate an inheritance of some $100,000.  Well, that was pretty much exactly my point.  Wealthy characters can use thier wealth to obtain status, influence, political power, contacts, and resources other than stuff than hang on thier weapons belt.  They can build castles, hire hirelings, manage lands and merchantile companies.  Having established themselves in this way, I'd be much more willing to assume that the PC's have become legitimate brokers of power as well, and thus could make contacts with whoever it is that sells magic items.  But even then, it wouldn't be a Wal-Mart situation.  It would be more like me rolling up a few random items a month and allowing them to bid on them.Not so much.  All you have to assume is that every item-hoarding organization liquidates last the instruments of its own power and security.  Again, assume that NPC act alot like PC's.  If the PC's hold lots of resources, and then run into problem and need liquidate resources to pay debts, I can promise you that the last thing that they'll get rid of is thier magic items.  If it comes to it, the PC's will scarf up their magic items and run rather than do that.  My assumption is that NPC's act in basically the same manner, and furthermore that when a brower broker falls, it's resources are invariably absorbed by one of its rivals, usually directly by some act of force.  Again, the assumption is not that there isn't a market, but rather that it is a closed market.   Even if there were an auction of magic resources, and this is unlikely except when several rival power brokers were forced to divy up the spoils, it wouldn't be one open to 'the public'.</blockquote>

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