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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1751582" data-attributes="member: 16936">To balance this out, then, why aren't PCs (who obviously have more disposable income than many other people in many typical campaign settings) constantly being barraged by offers to buy items that they don't particularly burn with desire for, at bargain-basement prices?Funny how it's the NPCs who seem to have an endless opportunity to pick up items at half or less than the default market value.  Even in settings where magic items are described as being incredibly rare. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'll stick to my guns on this: if you, as a GM, don't want players to sell something, then why not just say that there aren't any buyers instead of imposing a half-price rule?  And if there aren't merchants who buy magic items just so they can keep them on the rack in case a rich adventurer drops by (and in many settings, the supposed rarity of magical items and/or scarcity of cash means that there probably AREN'T any merchants like that), then who exactly is supposed to be buying these items at such a deep discount?  Why don't PCs ever get the chance to buy low and sell high like these NPCs are apparently planning on doing?Meh.  If that's fun for all of you, then by all means continue.  The group I play with typically has 5 players, which would leave at least 3 people (and probably 4) sitting on their hands waiting for all the rolling to be finished and for the big production of "finding a buyer with particular needs" to conclude.  Very boring for them, and not (I think) sufficiently interesting for the player/fence and the GM to justify monopolizing our limited game time with it.Of course, there might be another option, somewhere in between the two of us.  A canny GM might actually look at the item being sold and make a good estimate about how many people in the area would be interested in such a thing.  Try selling something intensely stupid like a dire flail +1 basically anywhere, and you'll probably have to mark it down to half or less before anyone would bother buying it...but that chainmail +1 will have TONS of potential buyers just about anywhere, all of whom would be more than happy to pay full market value for it, since, y'know, they're in the market for it.  That wand of mage armor might go for a good 80-90% of its market value (adjusted for charges, of course) near a cabal of wizards, but far less out in the barbarian hinterlands.Of course, you might notice that this is just a covert way of saying "if you don't want them to sell it, just say there aren't any buyers," only tarted up a bit with some off-the-cuff percentages.  I'm incorrigible.  <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />--go ahead, just try and corrige me</blockquote>

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