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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5910363" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Page 137 of the 3.5 DMG, upper right side under the title "Community Wealth and Population":It goes on from there, but the general idea is that if a town has 2,001 or more people (gold piece limit of 3,000 gp), you should be able to buy anything that costs up to 3,000 gp or less from that town, unless something is messing that up (which should be the exception). Once most towns don't abide by this logic, the exception has become the rule, and you've discarded the guidelines in the DMG (as Hussar was rightfully pointing out).And, just to give an example, there are only eight level 8 spells (on scrolls) that don't qualify for that 3,000 gp limit. That means you can usually purchase any of the other twenty-seven level 8 spells (on scrolls) in any city that has 2,001 or more people in it. Any city with 5,001 or more people has a gp limit of 15,000 gp, which is enough to buy any scroll except for Wish (which can be purchased in any town with 12,001 or more people, which has a gp limit of 40,000 gp!).Once you get into the highest end listed (25,001 or more people), you can reliably find any single item worth up to 100,000 gp or less, ready to be purchased. It's there, it's available, and you can buy it, by the guidelines presented in the 3.5 DMG. Should it be that way? In my mind, there shouldn't be a default in the DMG (I can see campaign setting books). But, there it is. Hussar isn't wrong to reference it. As always, play what you like <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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