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Message: <blockquote data-quote="andy3k" data-source="post: 5552367" data-attributes="member: 6674918">First off, I'd like to say that I own an expensive set of knives and they are SOOOO worth the cost over cheap knives. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Moving on. Don't think of the cost of magic items as actual "gold". Think of it as the gold equivalent in residuum to create that item. Magic items aren't mass produced by powerful casters because no one but kings, wealthy merchants, and successful guilds have the money for even one magic item. Like a pharaoh building a pyramid or a king building a great monument, a person/organization only has the wealth for 1-3 powerful magic items in a lifetime.So most those expensive magic items that are available in the world were created by kings and guilds and such over the course of centuries.  They were also created in other planes or by gods or such (where economy is irrelevant) and end up on [name your game location].Making these magic items requires residuum. You could pay a caster 10,000 gold (not that anyone in our world has that much) to make a magic item but if that caster does not have any residuum then you get bupkis. Sure, casters can spend hard earned money to have residuum mined for them, or casters can pay adventurers to obtain it from other planes, but it is rare and not easily gained. Most casters only end up with enough residuum for low level magic items. The other source of residuum is previously made magic items that are brought to caster for "processing".So adventurers discover magical items or a rare chest of residuum. They do it on their own or maybe they are paid by a higher power to hunt it down for them. Anything the adventurers or employers don't want to use as is, they take to a caster and say, "Can you suck the magic from here and make something useful for me?"In my group's game, the value of a magic item only represents the amount of magical energy required to make it, not a sack of coins. Since only a king or guild could actually afford to purchase a major magic item for coin, magic shops do not sell anything that costs more than 1,000 gold. Instead, you must bring enough magical energy to the caster to make your item for you (plus the gold or magical energy fee for manufacturing, the caster's profit).Groovy?</blockquote>

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