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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7339068"><p>I think you're misinterpreting my concern a little bit. It's not that if prices get published suddenly a bunch of players will start demanding they get to purchase anything they want.</p><p></p><p>It's more that a price list <em>normalizes the idea</em> of buying/selling magic items. It gets used in different ways by different tables, but overall the existence of official "prices" can easily give the appearance of blessing the idea of buying your way to magic item nirvana, regardless of what the supporting paragraphs say. And then that idea ends up getting baked into the community's...or a sub-set of the community's...perception of what D&D is.</p><p></p><p>For example, a group of kids new to the game might see such a price list and in the process of figuring out the game on their own (just picturing myself in the 80's) and, based on the existence of that price list, freely allow buying/trading of magic items. 15 years later they're all, "WTF? Of <em>course</em> you can buy whatever magic items you want! I've been playing that way since 1977!* In 5e there's even price lists! It's right there in the rules!"</p><p></p><p>Why do I think that's going to happen? Because a) that's what happens with D&D, and b) it happened right here in this thread.</p><p></p><p>(*Because, as we all know, as soon as you get on the Internet to discuss D&D it turns out you were besties with EGG.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7339068"] I think you're misinterpreting my concern a little bit. It's not that if prices get published suddenly a bunch of players will start demanding they get to purchase anything they want. It's more that a price list [I]normalizes the idea[/I] of buying/selling magic items. It gets used in different ways by different tables, but overall the existence of official "prices" can easily give the appearance of blessing the idea of buying your way to magic item nirvana, regardless of what the supporting paragraphs say. And then that idea ends up getting baked into the community's...or a sub-set of the community's...perception of what D&D is. For example, a group of kids new to the game might see such a price list and in the process of figuring out the game on their own (just picturing myself in the 80's) and, based on the existence of that price list, freely allow buying/trading of magic items. 15 years later they're all, "WTF? Of [I]course[/I] you can buy whatever magic items you want! I've been playing that way since 1977!* In 5e there's even price lists! It's right there in the rules!" Why do I think that's going to happen? Because a) that's what happens with D&D, and b) it happened right here in this thread. (*Because, as we all know, as soon as you get on the Internet to discuss D&D it turns out you were besties with EGG.) [/QUOTE]
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