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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1597371" data-attributes="member: 2673">In my campaign, magical items are not for sale, apart from some common disposable items such as potions, wands, and scrolls, in general.  To have something made you will usually have to find someone to create it for you.  Similarly, to sell an item you'll have to find a buyer.  In large towns you can find brokers who can arrange such things, for a fee of course.  Much like buying and selling fine art - you can't just go down to Wild Bill's Magic Sword Emporium.Further, all magical items require a special gem, the amberlite, that is what makes permenant magic items possible.  Even if you find someone who can create an item, you will have to supply them with the amberlite.  However, you can remove set gems and extract the powdered gems from existing items.  So its much more common to destroy items to extract the amberlite than it is to sell item A to buy item B.  Mechanically, it works out to be the same thing but feels a little more magical.Further, I get free plot hooks.  Rumors of old amberlite mines that could bear gems if the monsters were cleared out, lost shipments of gems headed for the King, or gems offered as a reward.  Or letting a group of 2nd level characters find a magical portal under a set of ruins with a setting for an amberlite to power it...but to access the portal they'll have to destroy their only magical weapon.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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