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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkelvenSFi" data-source="post: 4799383" data-attributes="member: 82911">I run a large campaign with various shops in each city. Each shop has a selection of items based on the quality and type of the shop; items rolled randomly from a database.One of the players is also in another group that.. for lack of a better word, criticized this approach, saying that each shop should have all items and allow players to choose what they wanted; after perusing the PHB, DMG and Magic Item Compendium.My query is; what do you guys as players and DMs think is best? (keeping in mind my options may sound biased..) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />1: All items available in every shop2: Shops selling items based on the shop quality and type (a weapon shop selling only weapons, and only valuable ones if in a rich quarter of town - for example).3: A variant of these; such as a shop for magical items, another for poisons/traps, another for mundane items, etc, but each selling everything in those categories (keeping in mind that a city may not have certain shops).4: Something else...What makes the game more enjoyable for you? Realism or accessibility.</blockquote>