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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6983838" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Even if merchants don't want to buy hobgoblin chain mail for some reason, you can always use it to equip your hirelings and/or zombies. It is intrinsically valuable, not just commercially valuable.My solution: for the most part, I ensure that conflict with tool-using intelligent humanoids is an emotionally significant event, and often dangerous. If you just want a dungeon crawl, go fight wights in a tomb--but if you get into it with the githyanki, whatever use you get out of the silver sword(s) will be more than compensated for by the fact that you've now got an entire nation of heavily-armed plane-hoppers on your trail. They will not send an infinite stream of easily-slaughtered lone Githyanki Knights that you can farm for infinite magic swords. You'll probably see exponential escalation instead, and the conflict will become a major plot point: if you defeat the first Githyanki Knight, then next time they'll send three, and after that they'll try send a whole platoon of 40 normal githyanki backed up by a couple of red dragons and five Knights. If you beat that, they might give up and pretend the theft never happened ("What stolen sword? In ten thousand years, no one has ever stolen one of our swords. I don't know what you're talking about."), or they might treat you like a hostile planar nation and send ten thousand troops to take and hold your entire nation permanently until they can hunt you down. With the way 5E bounded accuracy sets limits on character capabilities, those conflicts will all be very exciting even for high-level PCs.Just imagine how the U.S. military would respond to someone breaking into an Army base to steal weapons, and that will pretty much tell you how I'd run the githyanki. Hobgoblins and orcs less so (a hobgoblin clan has fewer resources than the githyanki nation) but they'll still act rationally and make you work for whatever you get from them.Any large amount of intrinsic loot that you get off of organized, intelligent, tool-using creatures is going to have been well-earned.</blockquote>

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