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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garboshnik" data-source="post: 3356103" data-attributes="member: 11569">As several people have pointed out, not all artifacts are that powerful.  Some examples from the DMG:The Shadowstaff --  +4 to AC and reflex saves is nice, as is the ability to summon a Nightshade (though only once a month) but the rest is pretty blah.  I'm not sure how many players would pay 200,000 gold for this.  And this is a major artifact?Talisman of Zagy -- This should be easy to estimate.  A scroll of Wish costs 30,000 gold and this item at best can provide 5 or 6 of them.  Plus the 10,000 it leaves behind makes 190,000.  This ignores the 5% chance of this happening and the fact that it takes up your amulet slot for a while.Most of the others are quite powerful, but certainly nothing worth attracting legions of thieves and assassins.  At least not compared to the value of all of the other magic the characters are probably hauling around...The only reason for not including a price is that the rarity of the items means that they are never for sale.  I imagine that if they were assigned prices to indicate their power level the results might be a little underwhelming.</blockquote>