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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 1441764" data-attributes="member: 413">My take on this is if the PCs have access to mid-high levels (say 7th+) and have a reasonable expectation of attaining them, then why not the NPCs?  I assume that most of those NPCs of reasonably high levels are not adventurers...The town high priest is a 7th level cleric, the master of the local academy is a 10th level bard, the Thane of the local clan is a 8th level fighter.  These guys don't go off "adventuring", they make their livings (and earn their XP) doing more mundane things.What makes the PCs "heroic" is they're willingness to go risk their necks in pursuit of whatever it is they're pursuing.See...as a player, this would completely hack me off.  Just because you're the DM, who the heck are you to tell me the right way (other than for game balance reasons) to make my PC.   If I want to build a character that is an expert with a battleaxe and hope to one day *gasp* get a battle axe suitable to my character, what exactly is wrong with that?  Sure, I can be flexible.  But if I've accumulated 20,000gp worth of treasure and magic items and I'd like to sell them and/or trade them for a weapon of my choosing, what's the big deal?Right...but since going around RPing trying to trade and sell magic items is extraordinarily boring, why not just let the PCs trade, sell, buy magic items during downtime between adventures?  You don't have to assume there is a magic "Walmart"...the PCs know a merchant who knows a guy who can get what they want made for them...at a price, of course.  It's the player's character.  Why do you care if he trades sells that +2 longsword for 3000gp and buys himself a +1 battle axe and a couple of potions?  It's all good.</blockquote>

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