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<blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 1749696" data-attributes="member: 2122">Which brings another point:&nbsp;&nbsp;How does a prospective buyer knows that an item is what it is ? Usually that entails the casting of an identify spell. And the spending of a 100 gp pearl.&nbsp;&nbsp;We can assume that the merchant &quot;absorbs&quot; the gp expense in his day-to-day expenditures, but he's going to need the ability to cast an identify. Which means that all merchants willing to buy PC's magic items are...&nbsp;&nbsp;-At least 1st level Wizards or Sorcerors with the Identify spell;&nbsp;-Experts with ranks in the use magic device skill and own a wand of identify. A 1st level expert will need in average 3 charges per identify, as he needs a skill check of 20 to succeed.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the merchant will need an hour each time per item.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just some considerations that are interesting to keep in mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I do agree that the current conundrum about full price/half price on magic items is ridiculous and creates an unrealistic dimension to the game. I don't mind it that much and go with it IMC, but I can absolutely understand a DM that wants to rule it out for something that has more... how should I say...&nbsp;&nbsp;... verisimilitude. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;&nbsp;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trainz, post: 1749696, member: 2122"] Which brings another point: How does a prospective buyer knows that an item is what it is ? Usually that entails the casting of an [i]identify[/i] spell. And the spending of a 100 gp pearl. We can assume that the merchant "absorbs" the gp expense in his day-to-day expenditures, but he's going to need the ability to cast an [i]identify[/i]. Which means that all merchants willing to buy PC's magic items are... -At least 1st level Wizards or Sorcerors with the [i]Identify[/i] spell; -Experts with ranks in the [i]use magic device[/i] skill and own a wand of [i]identify[/i]. A 1st level expert will need in average 3 charges per identify, as he needs a skill check of 20 to succeed. And the merchant will need an hour each time [i]per item[/i]. Just some considerations that are interesting to keep in mind. And I do agree that the current conundrum about full price/half price on magic items is ridiculous and creates an unrealistic dimension to the game. I don't mind it that much and go with it IMC, but I can absolutely understand a DM that wants to rule it out for something that has more... how should I say... ... [i]verisimilitude. ;) [/i] [/QUOTE]

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