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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6509762" data-attributes="member: 2011">This is really funny. I've always thought this. He had a magic short sword, a mithril shirt, and an artifact (or minimally a legendary item) and got into what, three fights total? He even acquired the Arkenstone which was not only a very valuable jewel, but the one that gave a dwarf the authority to be king. And he had plot immunity from a dragon.And then Frodo got the ring before setting foot outside the door. Later on, he got the sword, the shirt, an elvencloak, and the glowing Phial of Galadriel. He got into something like five fights total and had five items.What's so rare and special about that? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />I find it really amusing when people try to support the D&D supposition that magic items are special and rare, and should not be bought or sold. Anything valuable will be bought and sold by humans. It's what we do. It's laughable to think otherwise.And players love to acquire magic items, be it by finding them, or buying them. It's cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />I cannot ever remember a single player saying "Yeah, I got this magic shield, but I had to buy it, so it's not that special.". <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />There is absolutely nothing wrong with playing a D&D game where the PCs can buy and sell magic items. There is nothing BadWrongFun about it. If a given DM does not want that for his game, that's fine. But people shouldn't drink the koolaid that not buying and selling items is the way the game is meant to be played. I've played in dozens of campaigns for nearly 40 years and I cannot remember one where buying and selling magic items could not be done (not necessarily using magic item shops though). It's one major way to get rid of all of the other non-magical wealth that PCs acquire. For some tables, not buying and selling magic items is the exception, not the rule.</blockquote>

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