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<blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 8519230" data-attributes="member: 6802765"><p>In the area of my campaign world I usually focus on, there are two places to reliably buy magic items, but both have drawbacks.</p><p></p><p>The first is the Great Market in the capital city. Almost anything can be purchased here, but the market is so large that it can take weeks to find something obscure, and prices are highly variable. There is an entire profession of full-time market agents who work on commission to help one find or sell a particular item, if one doesn't have weeks to go searching for a buyer/seller themselves. Although convenient for one-stop shopping, the main downside is that the market has come to dominate the trade in everything exotic, so there isn't much for sale elsewhere on the continent. One can <em>sell</em> a magic item elsewhere, but you'll get significantly less for it as invariably you're selling to a merchant who plans to cart it across the continent to the Great Market for resale.</p><p></p><p>The other alternative is the Adventurers' Guild, but it's less of a proper guild and more of a cartel designed to exploit adventurers. Their Wayhouses are more than happy to let you browse their catalog, but prices are terrible and shipping times long (unless you pay through the nose for magical delivery). Worse, the same magic items seem to show up in the catalog repeatedly--the Guild is well-aware of their customers' short life expectancy and keeps a close eye on where they are headed, sponsoring follow-up expeditions to sites enriched by the gear of fallen adventurers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xetheral, post: 8519230, member: 6802765"] In the area of my campaign world I usually focus on, there are two places to reliably buy magic items, but both have drawbacks. The first is the Great Market in the capital city. Almost anything can be purchased here, but the market is so large that it can take weeks to find something obscure, and prices are highly variable. There is an entire profession of full-time market agents who work on commission to help one find or sell a particular item, if one doesn't have weeks to go searching for a buyer/seller themselves. Although convenient for one-stop shopping, the main downside is that the market has come to dominate the trade in everything exotic, so there isn't much for sale elsewhere on the continent. One can [I]sell[/I] a magic item elsewhere, but you'll get significantly less for it as invariably you're selling to a merchant who plans to cart it across the continent to the Great Market for resale. The other alternative is the Adventurers' Guild, but it's less of a proper guild and more of a cartel designed to exploit adventurers. Their Wayhouses are more than happy to let you browse their catalog, but prices are terrible and shipping times long (unless you pay through the nose for magical delivery). Worse, the same magic items seem to show up in the catalog repeatedly--the Guild is well-aware of their customers' short life expectancy and keeps a close eye on where they are headed, sponsoring follow-up expeditions to sites enriched by the gear of fallen adventurers. [/QUOTE]
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