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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6153395" data-attributes="member: 8835">I might consider that a valid quest might be to FIND and BUY (or steal) a better magic item.So instead of randomly finding what they want (a gift from the GM), they specifically research and find somebody who has one.On the point of the King with 20K gold, why would you leap to the extreme of the king needing to buy a magic sword for every one of his men.  A. that would create the absurdist excessive-magic availability that anti-magic shop people tend to hate. B. A kind does not put his best equipment on every soldier.  He puts his best equipment on his best soldiers.As King, I only need to buy 10 Longsword +1's and hand them out to my 10 lords who command my troops and are excessively skilled at using them.  Now I just earned gratitude from my men, and they stand out among the troops as being favored by the king.Since their title is hereditary, I don't need to do that every year.  So they'll pass it on to their son who will take over their position.Furthermore, when this practice started, I didn't have 10 lords to grant magic sword to, I had one or two.  They got my old +1 weapons when I graduated to a +2 back when they were just henchmen.  Several generations later, as the kingdom expanded, we acquire more magic swords, we hand them out.One of the key things to consider about "price" is that it doesn't always mean money.  Once I am a 3rd level Adventurer and I get my first Longsword +1, there may be nobody around who can afford the book price for it.  But there likely is a thief who can take it from me, and a man who can pay him 500 gold, who is also better protected than I am or the thief is. So the thief can make 500 cold and be better off, than he can if he steals the sword and keeps it (and becomes a target) or if he were to attempt to steal 500GP from the man who offered him the job.This is also an economy. A "priceless" item still has a price as practical people will reset the price to THEIR economic level.I think the key lesson I am trying to convey from my year of Economics in college, is do NOT assume there is no such thing as a magic item economy.  Where there is Supply and Demand, there is an Economy.  It most likely will not be as blatant as a Magic-R-Us store.  But somebody is trying to sell a magic item, and somebody is trying to buy a magic item.</blockquote>

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