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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4220495" data-attributes="member: 61155">I see two real situations: 1) Characters want to sell items that are either outdated, or useless to the party. Outdated items are probably low level, and selling them for 80% instead of 20% value will likely be a drop in the bucket compared to the party's current wealth. Useless items would be high level equipment they recently acquired, but that no one in the party was suited to use. You could easily make a short quest out of finding the right buyer for it, and they end up walking away with a nice profit that they can spend on a weaker item more fitting for the party. Doing so ends up not shattering the wealth/level guidelines, since they still come out a little bit worse off than if they item they initially found was useful enough to keep.2) Characters want to make a business out of it. Either there won't be time for it - the plot is too urgent to spend weeks or months setting up Ye Olde Item Shoppe, or it requires them to travel around the world, etc. Or, there is time for it - and you make a full-fledged story-arc out of it. They have to deal with angry merchants blacklisting them, acquire licenses, deal with paperwork, find some way to have a regular supply of items, deal with the merchants tirring up public sentiment against them and sending assassins after them, or thieves breaking into their shop, etc. By the time you are complete, they'll have earned some solid experience and gotten a decent profit from the shop. Henceforth, you can have the shop bring in a reasonable amount of money every week, and allow them to sell items more effectively - but at the cost of having trouble easily spending that money, since most merchants won't trade with them any longer. Sure, they can buy items off fellow adventurers who come through town, but getting the items they actually want will be much less reliable. All in all, it mostly balances.</blockquote>

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