d20 Modern - Buying magic items
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RangerWickett
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Cutter, amusing, but not what I'm going for in this game. Look, people have prices. Maybe not everyone does, but most people do. If you have enough money, people will sell anything. ("I'll pay you one million dollars if I can sleep with your wife.")
So they have enough money to cover some of these things. There is a slight problem at the highest wealth where, if you have a few hundred thousand dollars at your disposal you can manage to buy things that cost a few million dollars with a nat 20. A bit odd.
So they have enough money to cover some of these things. There is a slight problem at the highest wealth where, if you have a few hundred thousand dollars at your disposal you can manage to buy things that cost a few million dollars with a nat 20. A bit odd.
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I'd do someting along the lines of the 'Dalek' episode on Dr Who - eccentric quadrillionaires have their own exclusive black market in legendary items which only the very few are ever allowed to enter into.
So the PCs might have the money - but do they have the connections or the reputation? Thats a whole adventure even learning that this 'market' exists, then finding where it exists (trip to isolatd Bravarian monastery anyone) then being allowed to enter the exclusive world where $500000000000 can be paid - in cash (or swapped for another rare item or maybe for the 'favour' (as per Roudi's suggestion)
I like the idea of Edward the reclusive wizard and the strange old man at the chinese shop though
So the PCs might have the money - but do they have the connections or the reputation? Thats a whole adventure even learning that this 'market' exists, then finding where it exists (trip to isolatd Bravarian monastery anyone) then being allowed to enter the exclusive world where $500000000000 can be paid - in cash (or swapped for another rare item or maybe for the 'favour' (as per Roudi's suggestion)
I like the idea of Edward the reclusive wizard and the strange old man at the chinese shop though
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Remember that Wealth is an abstract concept-you can't really assign a value to the amount of actual "cash" a character has in their accounts.
That said, though, it is certainly possible for characters to get ahold of these items with Wealth bonuses much lower than the Purchase DCs. But remember that they have to make a separate Wealth check for each, and if they can only succeed on a natural 20, that's a sizable decrease to their Wealth score. They'd be better off waiting a few adventures until their Wealth equals or exceeds the price, so they only suffer a reduction of 1 point. Also, they must spend 1 hour per Purchase DC per item to find them all. Your PCs could be searching for these magic items for weeks. Meanwhile, what's going on in the world around them? Try to lure them out of the "shopping spree" with an adventure hook-maybe even one directly related to their magic item shopping. d20 Modern is a game about adventures, not bargain-bin surfing. Try to remind them of that, but do allow them to get some FX items. How many depends on the level of magic in your game, of course
That said, though, it is certainly possible for characters to get ahold of these items with Wealth bonuses much lower than the Purchase DCs. But remember that they have to make a separate Wealth check for each, and if they can only succeed on a natural 20, that's a sizable decrease to their Wealth score. They'd be better off waiting a few adventures until their Wealth equals or exceeds the price, so they only suffer a reduction of 1 point. Also, they must spend 1 hour per Purchase DC per item to find them all. Your PCs could be searching for these magic items for weeks. Meanwhile, what's going on in the world around them? Try to lure them out of the "shopping spree" with an adventure hook-maybe even one directly related to their magic item shopping. d20 Modern is a game about adventures, not bargain-bin surfing. Try to remind them of that, but do allow them to get some FX items. How many depends on the level of magic in your game, of course
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