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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gryph" data-source="post: 5552475" data-attributes="member: 98071">That's what I get for posting before my morning coffee <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />.  I just assume that the cost being the same to make as to buy is a simplification for DM convenience, as so much else in 4e. Part of the assumptions of PoL is the existence of ruins from previous empires just waiting for stout adventurers to plunder. So I liken the economy to be somewhat similiar to the european economy as the new world was being looted for its natural resources. The commoners were literaly dirt poor, but the backers of expiditions and especially the crown of Spain and Portugal were becoming very rich. So there are a handful of people with the resources to buy super rich goods and the need for them, but the supply is still a trickle, well under the demand, so the price of the really good and rare items is ruinous. Yet at the same time, that gold from looting ancient ruins is starting to trickle in to the middle class economy and some regular trade in low power magic items is driving the price down as craftsmen and mages apprentices are churning out +1 and +2 swords by the cart load trying to profit off the increased flow of gold coming from the looted caches. Enjoy it while it lasts, clearly a magic item bubble is coming and the value of that +6 sword is going to come tumbling down. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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