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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 5704216" data-attributes="member: 12460">To answer the OP, to each his own. For those who favor more immersion and role-play, maybe talking about levels in-character is a bit off-putting. But it isn't completely impractical either. I mean, there must be a way, in-character, to gauge a caster's relative power. It should be obvious when a 5th-level wizard reaches 6th-level and discovers his fireballs deal more damage.Addressing the specific situation in question, perhaps the characters in question wouldn't use the term "level," but might simply request the items with the longest durations, most damage potential, and greatest range. Those are things that should certainly be quantifiable in-character and therefore easy to determine out-of-character. One could also request those with the most expensive material component costs for items dependent on such things, such as wands, which use the caster level of the creator.But IMHO D&D is more a game than an exercise in character immersion. And shopping is always one of those things that I have required very little in-character conversation to accomplish. If a player asks to buy a wand with a caster level of 5, then that's what the player gets, so long as he can afford it and the wand is available for sale. I assume the character has some means to gauge these things and expresses them to the seller in a way that is understandable to both.</blockquote>