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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4802207" data-attributes="member: 18701">I don't even have magic item shops in our campaign...and I'm even running a 3.5 Planescape campaign <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />I've just always hated the idea of a magic item shop. I won't go into all the many reasons why, but the main reason is that it just makes magic items mundane & not very special. For me, part of the enjoyment I get from DMing is seeing the surprise and excitement on a players face when they find a cool magic item that they didn't expect to find. I do have alchemists in cities & towns that will make them potions. Churches will make divine scrolls & wizards will make arcane scrolls. If a player wants a specific item, they have to have a good reason for why their PC would even know that item exists (reading about it in the DMG does not mean the PC would know about it or even think about it's possible existence). If they have a good reason, they can ask around and try to locate one for sale or pay someone to make it. A +1 item would be a bit easier to obtain this way, but anything else will be hard to find & cost a lot more than what the DMG says. Again, for me, it's metagaming if a player argues about the price difference just because he read that it's cheaper in the DMG. My campaign doesn't have Ebay or the Magic Item Price Guide for PCs to refer to for magic item values <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" />Oh, I do have 1 magic item shop, in Sigil. Akin the Friendly Fiend's shop. But he's used for roleplaying & a source for item IDing. All of his items are almost useless, and meant to be comedy relief. PCs like to look at his goods, but they usually don't want to spend money on any of it.</blockquote>

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