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<blockquote data-quote="fafhrd" data-source="post: 1625527" data-attributes="member: 18517">This is one of those things that looks innocent at first blush but can end up being a logistical nightmare.&nbsp; Core says you can generally sell items for half their value.&nbsp; Hrmm easy enough eh?&nbsp; Magic items seem to throw a kink in that plan for my party.&nbsp; How does lil ol Exp1 shopkeep know what the hell he is buying exactly?&nbsp; Does every shopkeep who deals in any magic need to have a level of wizard thrown in for identify?&nbsp; Are they likely to blow the 100 gp pearl to find out what its worth?&nbsp; Aha, but perhaps they have use magic device and wands of identify.&nbsp;&nbsp; Those wands don't come cheap and UMD is hardly a sure bet for said Exp1.Then you have the party IDing the items and assuring the shopkeep it is indeed a sword of suchandsuch and you should really trust us.&nbsp; A couple generations of shopkeeps getting ripped off by bards with great bluff skills would suggest they are a long dead breed.&nbsp; That's if you can get your party to ID anything at all.&nbsp; &quot;A day!?! Plus a freakin pearl?&quot;, they ask.So I went out of the way to create &quot;assessors&quot;.&nbsp; Trusted mages who provide IDing services for a mere 150 gp an item.&nbsp; The party balks at the outrageous charge and simply goes about leaving the poor ol' DM to factor in all the pluses, reductions, charges and the like.&nbsp; &lt;mutters&gt;&nbsp; If one caves and finally just tells them what they have, no one ever bothers to get anything identified.&nbsp; Why spend all that time and money when I just gotta torment the DM into letting me know, they think.&nbsp; &lt;/rant&gt;&nbsp; If anyone has stumbled on a good solution to all this let me know.&nbsp; I'd be overjoyed to hear of it.&nbsp; Sorry for the partial hijack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fafhrd, post: 1625527, member: 18517"] This is one of those things that looks innocent at first blush but can end up being a logistical nightmare. Core says you can generally sell items for half their value. Hrmm easy enough eh? Magic items seem to throw a kink in that plan for my party. How does lil ol Exp1 shopkeep know what the hell he is buying exactly? Does every shopkeep who deals in any magic need to have a level of wizard thrown in for identify? Are they likely to blow the 100 gp pearl to find out what its worth? Aha, but perhaps they have use magic device and wands of identify. Those wands don't come cheap and UMD is hardly a sure bet for said Exp1. Then you have the party IDing the items and assuring the shopkeep it is indeed a sword of suchandsuch and you should really trust us. A couple generations of shopkeeps getting ripped off by bards with great bluff skills would suggest they are a long dead breed. That's if you can get your party to ID anything at all. "A day!?! Plus a freakin pearl?", they ask. So I went out of the way to create "assessors". Trusted mages who provide IDing services for a mere 150 gp an item. The party balks at the outrageous charge and simply goes about leaving the poor ol' DM to factor in all the pluses, reductions, charges and the like. <mutters> If one caves and finally just tells them what they have, no one ever bothers to get anything identified. Why spend all that time and money when I just gotta torment the DM into letting me know, they think. </rant> If anyone has stumbled on a good solution to all this let me know. I'd be overjoyed to hear of it. Sorry for the partial hijack. [/QUOTE]

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