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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7339049">No, not among my gaming friends.  I'm basing my prediction off two things:1) Behavior/demands I see in Adventurer's League games, where players come in with all sorts of arguments based on what they've found in the books.  "But the books says THIS..."2) The arguments I see put forward on these (and other RPG) forums.  In this very thread people are using 'evidence' from every edition, and even FR novels for crying out loud, to make their case.Yes, if there is going to be a price list I think it should be something like this.  I was thinking it could really just be a range, with notes.  ("If you are in a low-magic campaign it should be on the high end...")  But some people in this thread are asking for a specific price so they don't have to make a decision or remember what it was, so I suppose that wouldn't meet their needs.(And then I always come back to the problem of: "Unless gold is more rare/abundant in your campaign than is assumed, in which case these prices are nearly useless...".)This is along the lines of what I was suggesting earlier: just provide guidelines/considerations for DMs in setting their own prices.  Not that it meets the needs of those asking for prices, but it's what I would do if I were Mike Mearls.I could see this possibly arising if specific items were common/frequent enough that this could occur.   But both because it requires an abundance of magic items for sale...so abundant that it starts to feel like a Magic Mart...and because it's so easy to prevent it ("Sorry, that one sold while you were off in the other town", or "Sorry, the sell price and the buy price are different," or even "Word gets out that you are frequently transporting magic items...roll initiative.") that I have trouble imagining this actually being a problem.I was at a Sotheby's auction of Impressionists paintings, and ended up sitting next to a couple who were selling a small Degas (I can't remember if it was actually found in their attic, but it was the classic story of discovering this thing they owned was valuable).  A larger Degas sold for a lot, and so I did a price-per-square-inch calculation and whispered, "So you should expect about $X."  They laughed, because of course I was joking.  (I think they ended up getting more per square inch.)The argument that similar magic items should have a similar price, or that +1/+2/+3 should somehow be proportional, strikes me the same way.  I mean, I suppose it makes some sense, in the way that price per square inch of paintings makes sense.  But if magic items are rare and wonderful and have unique histories and owners with unpredictable personalities and buyers who covet such items for reasons known only to them...all bets are off.YMMV, of course.Maybe the way to handle pricing is the way everything is solved these days: a social media app.  If you (the DM) want an item to be for sale, you enter it into an app.  Every DM offering the same item ends up in the same auction.  You then ask your players how much they are willing to pay.  You enter the price, tap 'bid', and wait.  If your players win the auction, they get the item.(Yes, I'm joking.)</blockquote>

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