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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 8257592" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>aaaal this being said, I think I'll outline the conditions under which items might be bought and sold and it would "make sense" in world.</p><p></p><p>In Yoon Suin, the Yellow City is a major port, and the only point of entry to the Purple Lands (aka Yoon Suin). The city is dominated by the slugmen, a somewhat long lived race who excel at magic - in theory, as many of them are bored hedonists. (the majority of the population are humans -essentially the slugmen houses are the nobility). The position of the city, not to mention local topaz mines, means that the average slugman is incredibly wealthy. (GDP is about 10 000 talents, or almost 68 million gp, I can show the math). The city is very old.</p><p></p><p>So amongst other things, slugmen collect magical items, and over the millennia they have accumulated many. They don't need them, but they like them. But from time to time, a slugman needs cash, and selling some of those items is a good way to do it. </p><p></p><p>So there is a quarterly auction. I roll for random magical items (the PCs can't pick and choose, usually about 6-10), and the PCs can also auction off items they don't want either. I randomly roll a selling price, and keep it secret, and the PCs put a max bid. If their max bid is above the price, they win the item (at the price rolled). If their max bid wasn't, they lose the auction. </p><p></p><p>This also allowed the PCs to socialized with "important people", which led to jobs, missions etc.</p><p></p><p>This set up avoided many of my misgivings about magical items shops - there is no guarantee that the PCs will get what they want. I feel that the random roll is very important.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 8257592, member: 23"] aaaal this being said, I think I'll outline the conditions under which items might be bought and sold and it would "make sense" in world. In Yoon Suin, the Yellow City is a major port, and the only point of entry to the Purple Lands (aka Yoon Suin). The city is dominated by the slugmen, a somewhat long lived race who excel at magic - in theory, as many of them are bored hedonists. (the majority of the population are humans -essentially the slugmen houses are the nobility). The position of the city, not to mention local topaz mines, means that the average slugman is incredibly wealthy. (GDP is about 10 000 talents, or almost 68 million gp, I can show the math). The city is very old. So amongst other things, slugmen collect magical items, and over the millennia they have accumulated many. They don't need them, but they like them. But from time to time, a slugman needs cash, and selling some of those items is a good way to do it. So there is a quarterly auction. I roll for random magical items (the PCs can't pick and choose, usually about 6-10), and the PCs can also auction off items they don't want either. I randomly roll a selling price, and keep it secret, and the PCs put a max bid. If their max bid is above the price, they win the item (at the price rolled). If their max bid wasn't, they lose the auction. This also allowed the PCs to socialized with "important people", which led to jobs, missions etc. This set up avoided many of my misgivings about magical items shops - there is no guarantee that the PCs will get what they want. I feel that the random roll is very important. [/QUOTE]
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