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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5614346" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>Or insert any other high-level spell name in there. Yes, high level magic is rare and therefore valuable, which means that any high-level spellcaster could potentially sell their services at a premium. That's not an inconsistency so much as a feature of the setting. The best way to deal with it, if it comes up, is to use it to generate plot hooks.</p><p></p><p>Aside from aggressive reactions from the trading houses, there are any number of potential consequences for this. The PCs could become victims of their own success, with demand for their services swiftly outstripping the number of spells they could possibly memorise - and since theirs is a premium service, they could find that the people they're having to refuse services to are some of the most influential in Khorvaire, and very easily offended.</p><p></p><p>Or throw in a moral dilemma - do they teleport that cargo of highly-perishable medicine into the plague-stricken village on the border of the Mournland, knowing that the charitable organisation pleading for them to do so can't come close to paying the going rate and that they may be quarantined on arrival if they do so, or do they go for the easy buck transporting a wealthy nobleman to his nephew's birthday party for a sky-high fee, knowing that they may be condemning hundreds or even thousands to a prolonged, disease-stricken demise?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 5614346, member: 40176"] Or insert any other high-level spell name in there. Yes, high level magic is rare and therefore valuable, which means that any high-level spellcaster could potentially sell their services at a premium. That's not an inconsistency so much as a feature of the setting. The best way to deal with it, if it comes up, is to use it to generate plot hooks. Aside from aggressive reactions from the trading houses, there are any number of potential consequences for this. The PCs could become victims of their own success, with demand for their services swiftly outstripping the number of spells they could possibly memorise - and since theirs is a premium service, they could find that the people they're having to refuse services to are some of the most influential in Khorvaire, and very easily offended. Or throw in a moral dilemma - do they teleport that cargo of highly-perishable medicine into the plague-stricken village on the border of the Mournland, knowing that the charitable organisation pleading for them to do so can't come close to paying the going rate and that they may be quarantined on arrival if they do so, or do they go for the easy buck transporting a wealthy nobleman to his nephew's birthday party for a sky-high fee, knowing that they may be condemning hundreds or even thousands to a prolonged, disease-stricken demise? [/QUOTE]
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