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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2308149" data-attributes="member: 3146">Really?In a game with handy haversacks and bags of holding?Perhaps more to the point, is a wand of CLW better than 25 scrolls of CLW, 5 scrolls of remove fear, 10 scrolls of protection from evil, 5 scrolls of detect secret doors, a scroll of hold portal, a scroll of true strike, and two scrolls of shield?Characters are unlikely to go through all 50 CLW charges on a wand before they have a chance to restock, so, if the price per charge on a wand were equal to the price per charge on a scroll, there would be significant opportunity costs to buying 50 charges at once instead of buying the healing scrolls you're likely to need in the immediate future along with a supply of diverse and sundry scrolls that might come in handy. Buying the wand doesn't get the PCs anything they need and denies them the possibility of spending that money on other things that might be useful. (That's one of the reasons that wands are cheaper than scrolls).Making wands more expensive than scrolls jacks the opportunity cost up even further.Your analysis only makes sense in a world where storage space and carrying capacity are at a premium and a campaign where characters will go for several levels without having a chance to restock their consumable magic items. I don't think either of those describe most D&D campaigns. (Though both may describe Nemmerle's Aquerra campaign, so highly customized worlds may be different).</blockquote>

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