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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1236310" data-attributes="member: 2673">W3rd.  You can have made/bought items still add to the plot.  The way I stay away from the 'OTC wands' problem is to have most items made, not bought.  The mage may have a few common items on hand - potions of healing, longswords and daggers +1, etc.  Most items, especially the kind of items the PCs will be looking for, have to be made.  Further, I decide ahead of time which feats the mage in a given town has and what level he is.  So if the town mage is 5th level with Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Scribe Scroll, and Brew Potion, those items can be done.  But they'll have to find another merchant to get Wonderous items.By the way, here's a guaranteed way to tick off a PC.  With most items being crafted, the PCs will tend to overwhelm the mage with requests.  Crafting these things take time, he likely won't be able to make all of them before the PCs need to be out on the road.Well, the ranger really wanted Gloves of Dexterity, but couldn't wait on them.  So he gave the guy his money and said he'd pick them up when they got back in town.  Well it turns out that the BBEG arose in the town when they were gone and dominated everyone.  They fought their way back through and found 1) the mage dead and 2) his leuitenant wearing the PC's magic gloves.He was kind of ticked <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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