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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imp" data-source="post: 3606897" data-attributes="member: 40094">Oh lord no.  It can be kind of fun to take players through the process, once, maybe later twice if it's different, so they get an idea of what it entails, and you make it interesting with maybe some rivals out there looking to buy the same thing, but yeah, going through a laborious item-hunting process in-game every single time, that sucks, no question.It's only really an issue if you treat a 3e campaign as a six-month nonstop thrillride to 20th-level demigodhood, which the game makes very possible if you don't allow downtime, and which is really pretty cartoony – though that can be fun.  If you give the campaign a pre-modern pace to begin with, make it more episodic, and have the characters grow at the comparatively glacial but still objectively impressive rate of a level per game year (on average), or even just provide a month or three of downtime between adventures, the time considerations aren't such a strain.</blockquote>