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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4206598" data-attributes="member: 710">The strange thing is, the &quot;magic item market&quot; is more an emergent property from 3E, rather then a rule. The reason for this is probably just because items are given a &quot;market price&quot;, and there is even an exchange rate. There's also the gp value based on settlement size, but there is no explicit mention of being able to buy these on a bazar or something like that. Theoretically, DMs could have required small quests for local wizards to get you items, and they wouldn't even have to give you exactly the item you desired. In a way, &quot;everyone&quot; took the simplest ruled and said &quot;sell for half market price, buy for full, if town is large enough&quot;. The wealth rules also lead to people never getting &quot;suboptimal&quot; items, and when was the last time the DM handed you an artifact? No GP price? No one knows what it will do to balance, better never use it!I hope that the 4E rules make people a little more flexible. I think there is room for a magical item market on a general basis, but not for every setting and world, and not for every item...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4206598, member: 710"] The strange thing is, the "magic item market" is more an emergent property from 3E, rather then a rule. The reason for this is probably just because items are given a "market price", and there is even an exchange rate. There's also the gp value based on settlement size, but there is no explicit mention of being able to buy these on a bazar or something like that. Theoretically, DMs could have required small quests for local wizards to get you items, and they wouldn't even have to give you exactly the item you desired. In a way, "everyone" took the simplest ruled and said "sell for half market price, buy for full, if town is large enough". The wealth rules also lead to people never getting "suboptimal" items, and when was the last time the DM handed you an artifact? No GP price? No one knows what it will do to balance, better never use it! I hope that the 4E rules make people a little more flexible. I think there is room for a magical item market on a general basis, but not for every setting and world, and not for every item... [/QUOTE]

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