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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8253560" data-attributes="member: 23751">First, nothing I'm doing is gloating.  Perhaps you don't know what that word means. Disagreeing with your premise is not gloating.We played like that in junior high school and high school. Then we grew up and wanted more than hack n' slash.  And actually, I think that even in high school we started spending gold on other things, just not that often.What I've been saying here works with the hack n' slash playstyle just fine.  You don't need set pricing to play that way.If you don't need logical and rational pricing, then it's even easier for you to just come up with a price and sell items to your players.  There's even less need for set pricing once you throw out logic and reason.Nice Strawman there.  I'm not saying that it's a bad way to play the game.  I've said that it's super easy to just come up with prices as the DM.  Something you denied and then in this last post of yours, demonstrated was super easy by getting rid of logic and reason from your pricing structure.1e and 2e did not have magic marts, though they did have pricing.  In games where magic marts were put in by the DM, PC became too powerful very quickly and it disrupted the balance of the game.  3e built in magic marts and the ability to buy precisely what made your PC the super strongest also disrupted what little balance 3e had.Now, if you don't care about logic, reason or any semblance of balance, then the game works just fine with magic marts.  If you and your group is having fun, that's all that matters.Come off it man.  Enough with the absurd claims.  WotC has no "duty" to provide you with gold prices for magic items.  Nor is there any accuracy your absurd claim that purchasing pirate ships and bribing NPCs is "downtime."  Those are clearly things that would happen during game play.  I still use the Encyclopedia Magica.  It's even better than the compendium.  I certainly wouldn't mind a book like that being made.</blockquote>

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