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It came up a few times in the Forum, already but as part of other Topics like e.g. silver instead of Gold, realistic item costs (for regular items).
The way i resolved it and it works great that way is not to do Magic item shope but:
1. Silver instead of Gold.
That goes for the Prices as well, if you are lazy take the phb Prices and submit silver instead of Gold it gets much more realistic.
2. Silver is dropped in small amounts by humanoid Mobs. A Level 1 Drops 1d6 SP a Level 4 might drop 4 d20 or whatever you are in the mood for apply rule 0 but be bit greedy
3. No treasure hoards by the book! A treasure of 1000 gp (in my campaign would be 20000 sp bec i do 20 SP = 1 GP) is a treasure of an adult Dragon ffs. And if you Need plate mail you pay 800 sp for that.
4. for the later stages if the Party gets rich give them other stuff to buy: ships coaches Mounts war machines etc etc
5. Concerning Magic items: mage scrolls: yes any do 100SP * Level of the spell ^2 that is a Level 1 scroll is 100 sp a Level 3 is 900 sp a Level 9 is 8100 sp. healing pots: the normal ones are 25 sp and do 2d4+2 like in the phb then do some better ones but make them not available in large quantities like 4d8+4 but costing 250 sp
There you go Problem solved. Do not go by the book for this one except you are running AL, then i guess you have to. Question how free is a dm in AL to adjust These things? Just for my scientific interest, i am living in europe so no AL for me anyway.
It came up a few times in the Forum, already but as part of other Topics like e.g. silver instead of Gold, realistic item costs (for regular items).
The way i resolved it and it works great that way is not to do Magic item shope but:
1. Silver instead of Gold.
That goes for the Prices as well, if you are lazy take the phb Prices and submit silver instead of Gold it gets much more realistic.
2. Silver is dropped in small amounts by humanoid Mobs. A Level 1 Drops 1d6 SP a Level 4 might drop 4 d20 or whatever you are in the mood for apply rule 0 but be bit greedy
3. No treasure hoards by the book! A treasure of 1000 gp (in my campaign would be 20000 sp bec i do 20 SP = 1 GP) is a treasure of an adult Dragon ffs. And if you Need plate mail you pay 800 sp for that.
4. for the later stages if the Party gets rich give them other stuff to buy: ships coaches Mounts war machines etc etc
5. Concerning Magic items: mage scrolls: yes any do 100SP * Level of the spell ^2 that is a Level 1 scroll is 100 sp a Level 3 is 900 sp a Level 9 is 8100 sp. healing pots: the normal ones are 25 sp and do 2d4+2 like in the phb then do some better ones but make them not available in large quantities like 4d8+4 but costing 250 sp
There you go Problem solved. Do not go by the book for this one except you are running AL, then i guess you have to. Question how free is a dm in AL to adjust These things? Just for my scientific interest, i am living in europe so no AL for me anyway.