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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psikus" data-source="post: 5552249" data-attributes="member: 66049">Item prices (and PC cash rewards, for that matter) do get pretty silly at higher levels, and I don't think there's a reason for that other than to prevent lower level characters from buying a +6 weapon. I haven't had to deal with this in our games, because we don't usually deal with gold - rather, players get all their gear as encounter rewards. For your game, I'd consider trying out the following rules:- A character can only use magic items that are up to his level+5.- Progression of item cost by level is completely recalculated, to more sane values.Once you introduce game mechanics to prevent abusing item cost, you can tone down item inflation as much as you want. As a reference, the official 4E progression has gold costs multiply by 5 every five levels (so that a level 30 item costs ~8000 times as much as a level 1 one). Changing it to, say, multiply costs by 2 or 3 every five levels results in a much more reasonable progression. Once you are on it, I'd suggest rounding the cost of a level 1 item to a nicer number, like 250gp, in order to have a prettier table.As a downside, players may think that the level limit on item use is artificial and forced (which it is), and other economy-related systems like rituals require additional work...</blockquote>