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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5595511" data-attributes="member: 10784">Interesting - I'm sure there is more to the story than you are telling us...  however, even in a large city, there are going to be a limited amount of people that can even purchase a single potion of cure light wounds.  Plus, there will also be people who follow other deities in the city that might not like the competition and/or the deity ("Hey, why is Chuck the Cleric of Deity X selling cure light wounds potions for 100gp each?  I follow Deity Y and I'm going to sell my potions for 90gp each and give away a free potion with every 10 purchased."  Then, the follower of Deity Z says it is immoral to make a profit off of healing others, so she will require only a service for her church in exchange for a potion and she undercuts both the PC and the NPC cleric of Deity Y)Not to mention a visit from the town guard a few weeks into the potion sale, "Last night, we had a group of evil blood cultists raid a merchant's guild meeting, killing several wealthy merchants and their guards and making off with thousands in platinum and gold... one of the surviving guards said that even when they attacked the cultists, they would drink a potion and heal right up on the spot.  We found a dozen of these potion vials with the markings of your deity on them.  We're going to have to question you about supplying the evil cult with their healing abilities.")</blockquote>