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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 949142" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI usually determine what is for sale by determining what would be in demand adventurer items, and what would be specialty items. I do definitely include the ability to obtain any magic item the PC's want in major cities, but some will take more time to obtain than others.Items I consider standard adventuring gear that PC's can acquire fairly easily:1. Holding Items: Bags of Holding, Portable Hole, Hewards Handy Haversack. Stuff like these are easy to acquire because they are in high demand by adventurers IMO, thus they have a high inventory turnover and don't tie up magic shop owners capital.2. Potions and Scrolls: Healing potions, restorative potions, movement potions, defensive potions and similar scroll types I consider in demand adventuring gear. They are available from many places in major cities.3. Wands: Offensive wands such as Fireball, Magic Missile and Lightning Bolt wands are fairly common. Curative, restorative and protection wands are fairly common. 4. Low level magic weapons and armor: I feel many armorers and weaponsmiths keep a wide range of low level magic weapons as well as masterwork weapons for creating more powerful magic weapons on hand. Most weapons above +2 are made to order as our weapons with special powers. 5. Special Material Items: Special material items are all made to order. You must commission and pay the craftsman in advance to make them.I don't have any real hard and fast rules. I have developed a good sense of what I want to allow the characters to purchase with relative ease and what items will cause them to have to wait. I also don't like to allow certain materials like mithral to easily proliferate without a good reason why a person is able to acquire such an item. Only the dwarves and to a lesser extent the elves and allied humans have access to mithril. It should not enter the game easily just because someone can afford it.I have some basic guidelines I follow for player magic acquisition. the rest I play by ear. I try to make the process as speedy as possible. I only make them roleplay out acquiring the item if it is a substantial item that will require some of repute to make it.</blockquote>

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