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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King-Panda" data-source="post: 4334550" data-attributes="member: 32115">Since at least 3E, D&D's economy has been haywire. I really wish they could have made it more robust, but it didn't happen, so no big deal. I'm a big boy, I'll get over it. Here's how I plan on explaining the 100%/20% rule, at least until my players leave the material plane.     Everyone who deals in magical items knows that when disenchanted, they return only 20% of their residuum. The other 80% is lost in the process of making the item. The economy in my game is going to assume the market for magic items hasn't changed much in the past few decades, simply to keep the 100%/20% rule plausible.     A merchant selling a specific magical item finds a buyer about 20% of the time, for a myriad of reasons I won't bother to write out in detail. These merchants don't mind too much, seeing as how they charge 5 times as much (market price) to make up for the loss. The majority of their profit comes from disenchanting those 4 other items they don't sell for residuum.Now, I'd like to change this, (mostly because it's retarded) but I'm not going to. The economy is set up to keep player wealth in line with their level, and if I start changing stuff around, I'm going to have to **** with their treasure gain to keep it all balanced (why bother when wizards went to such great lengths making loot so simple to track now?). I plan on telling my players this if they ask why they can't get a better deal on their unused items. I doubt they will want to trade a loss of loot for more gold, so I'm not too worried (may not be true in your group, be warned).I'm not sure how I'm going to explain this economy when they start traveling to other planes, where magical items and the creatures who wield them are going to be much more common. Maybe I will end up changing the system then. I guess my point is, for those of you who see this system as totally bonkers, I agree. But it's made to revolve around the player wealth:level ratio, and if you want to screw with it, realize you're gonna have to change a whole pile of other crap too just to keep the players in check.</blockquote>

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