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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4951422" data-attributes="member: 463">DMG pg 155 "The Magic Item Economy"Characters can use the monetary treasure theyfind, as well as the gold from selling items, to acquirenew magic items. They can’t make items above theirlevel, and can’t often afford items more than a fewlevels above theirs. It’s to their benefit to use theEnchant Magic Item ritual for items of their levelor lower, rather than buying these items from merchants,agents, or fences, because of the 10–40 percentmarkup over items’ value that these sellers charge.When they want items above their levels, they have togo to merchants.The game still works if you decide that magic itemscan’t be bought and sold in your world. Characterscan rely entirely on rituals to duplicate the economyof buying and selling without money changing hands.The residuum they collect from disenchanting itemsprovides the expensive ritual components they needfor the enchanting ritual. If you want characters to relyentirely on these rituals, remove the cost to performthe Disenchant Magic Item ritual, making it just asefficient as selling.On the flip side, you can drive the characters tomarkets instead of rituals by altering the prices theypay for magic items. You can remove the randommarkup, or even alter it to allow the possibility of findingitems for sale below normal price. For example,roll 1d6 as usual, but a 1 means the item is availablefor 10 percent below the base price, a 2 means it’savailable for the base price, and 3–6 means a 10 percentto 40 percent markup. Items are readily available,and sometimes characters can get a good deal.So 10-40% is the standard rule, while no item purchase or purchase without markup are optional rules.</blockquote>

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