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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 6654436" data-attributes="member: 5890">... well, except for the fact that it's only worth about twice what a potion of flying is worth. Along with any other number of comparisons you can make, some of which may not be glowing. "Beyond compare" is a literary construct that really means nothing.Also - your example defeats your argument: the existence of a price list doesn't cause the cookie cutterness. The importance of the item, and the rarity of it does. It doesn't matter if I can sell Algalorn for 25,000 gold. It matters that I can't buy it, and that I don't have a sword that is better than it. If my party already has weapon options that are better than Algalorn (which can include non-magical options - a polearm specialist likely won't use it even if the alternative is his non-magical halberd), it's history won't stop me from putting it in a golf bag of weapons for a rainy giant hunting day and forgetting about it. Neither will a lack of a price to buy/sell it.No matter what, very few people are going to be excited if they get a potion of flying without an awful lot of setup from the DM. So there is really no harm at all in sticking a price on it.</blockquote>