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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 252148" data-attributes="member: 5724">to quote the DMG page 137..."To determine the amount of ready cash in a community, or the total value of any given item of equipment for sale at any give time, multiply half the gp limit by 1/10 of the community's population.  For example, suppose a band of adventureres brings a bagful of loot (100 gems, each worth 50gp) into a hamlet of 90 people.  1/2 the hamlet's gp limit times 1/10 of its population equals 450.  (100/2=50,   90/10=9,   50x9=450)"Small town, pop 1000.....   800/2=400,  1000/10=100,  400x100=40,000gp.  you can sell most of your stuff in a small town, as long as you dont mind copper, and dont keep coming back.  I'd rule the pricyest single sale a player could make would be about 1/10 of this to a single buyer... so around 4000gp.  my ruling, of course is mine.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Large town, pop 3000.... 3000/2=1500,   3000/10=300   1500x300=   450,000gp, so even with my 1/10 idea, 45,000gp is almost any item.So for a Large city, pop of 15,000.....   40000/2=20000,  15000/10=1500,  20000x1500=30,000,000 You could sell anything in a large city.joe b.ps.  Agback, considering the disparity between the purchasing power and the production ability of magic.. magic would sell like hot-cakes in a 8,000 or so greater population.  No need to worry about that ring sitting on the shelf...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  and given my experiece in third world countries, the idea that somthing may sit on a shelf for five or so years is not unusual....  (even food items <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  there really is a different mentality about business outside of the "developed" countries</blockquote>

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