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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azalnubizar" data-source="post: 2903077" data-attributes="member: 17511">very interesting topic - I have had several discussions with my players regarding this......I believe no spellcaster would actually spend XP on items for the sole reason of making profit.Therefore you wouldn't probably find spellcasters working for commission. There might be spellcasters that would do it - but then for other payment than gold, I believe...on the other hand - I do play FR, mainly, and if you look into the character descriptions there are simply too many magic items around so this would definitly justify a "magic shop".Any sort of item worth it (and magic items certainly are) would find some kind of market. And as long as it is not prohibited by law (which in case of FR isn't the case) there would be dealers and probably shops in every major city.About the risks of a magic shop... well, I believe that, since the amount of money which can probably be made by dealing in magic items, is quite high, the cost proper security can be well paid and therefore this is no reason for not dealing in it. If the risk would still be too high, the dealers would simply raise the security and therefore raise the prices......last, but not least, there r a few questions that need to be answered before trying to solve the issue:1) If there r no shops selling and/or buying magic items in a campaign with as much magic as FR... where do all the magic items go, once the holder doesn't "need" them any more?2) Since every creation of a magic item costs you XP - how do magic users working for commission get along? Do you study your whole live just to spend all your magical might on a few magic items that you sell and become rich? And then start it all over again?in my campaigns I usually have some kind of "magic shops"... magical weapons/armor can be purchased and resold in smithies in major cities (if those have enough cash). Other magical material is either sold and bought at some "curiosities"-shops or at mages-guilds, which naturally often fit this role quite easily...I would love to have some kind of system for my campaign to work with and not allways have to come up with something on my own, never knowing if this is too hard on my players or if I'm being too good and therefore unbalancing the game... but I haven't found any kind of proper resource for this, yet. The only mentioning of this for FR I found in Magic of Faerun which was a little disappointing, but enough to at least give a hint / a direction...about the power of items sold - normally I rule, that the max value of these items for sale are around 10,000 gp. Everything above is for one thing too rare, too risky & to dangerous to be sold openly. Items above those limits can easily threaten security of an area or tip the power balance of a region and therefore local rulers normally intervene to make sure items of this power are going to be placed into the right hands if there every would be something like this for sale (which rarely is, since most find these items very usefull themselves).just my 2 cents</blockquote>

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