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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1152733" data-attributes="member: 6271">And another thing...Something else to consider, too, is that the pricing structure is meant to reinforce the idea that people are not out there mass-producing magic items like cars in the modern world. Each one is a time-intensive labor, and making them to sell is a self-defeating process. One does not make a wand of lightning bolt to sell it; one makes it to use it, normally. The closest to mass-production would be the noble or organization that keeps clerics and/or mages "on staff" to make magic items -- in that case, I would expect the organization/noble to absorb the gp cost of making the item. Xavim, I agree that worlds need to have internal consistency about these sorts of things. So... -PCs get paid 1/2 rate because nobody sells magic items. Some people may be willing to take a chance that the PCs are 'oddball' enough to actually be doing something so silly, but even then, they will only risk about half the "market value" of the item. -PCs get paid 1/2 rate because they lose the other half to the Guild overseeing the place where they sell it. -PCs get paid 1/2 rate because they are not merchants with lots of appropriate connections, and can't take the time to shop for a better buyer. -PCs get paid 1/2 rate because they are selling 'found goods' that might have powerful owners looking to retrieve them. On the other hand, there is no reason not to pay a PC "full price" for a magic item made on commission. Well, except that the Guild may have a say in the matter perhaps offering to make the same item at a lower price, or insisting that the PC pay the Guild some fee for infringing on its monopoly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But that's what adventure hooks and political/town adventures are about.</blockquote>

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