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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3612285" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, that's rarely where the point stops...Y'know what, I'm done.&nbsp; I've seen this far too many times to get sucked in here.&nbsp; If you choose to never see this, then fine.&nbsp; But, whenever &quot;Magic Mart&quot; or &quot;Magic Wal-mart&quot; get's trotted out, invariably it's not a simple shorthand, but a backhanded slap at other people's playstyles.Heck, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3605949&amp;postcount=6" target="_blank">Aeric's post 6</a> pretty much called it right out.&nbsp; In his words its shorthand for &quot;lazy DMs looked at the list of magic items in the DMG, saw the prices next to them, and decided that they would be available on demand, off-the-rack, in any community that could support the cost.&quot;&nbsp; In other words, it's a perjorative term.&nbsp; It refers to lazy DM's.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3606026&amp;postcount=12" target="_blank">Nellisar in Post 12</a> says &quot;Magic-marts are a handy exaggeration that people bring up when they want to be snobbish about how -they- game.&quot;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3606070&amp;postcount=16" target="_blank">Post 16</a> says, &quot;It works if you assume your NPCs have no personalities or agenda of their own, other than to trade and create magic for your characters to purchase, but I think the system falls short and indeed looks Magic Mart like.&quot;That's just in the first page of this thread and this thread has been pretty well mannered.&nbsp; How anyone could think that Magic Walmart is a neutral term is beyond me when people all over the place are specifically using it in a perjorative sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3612285, member: 22779"] But, that's rarely where the point stops... Y'know what, I'm done. I've seen this far too many times to get sucked in here. If you choose to never see this, then fine. But, whenever "Magic Mart" or "Magic Wal-mart" get's trotted out, invariably it's not a simple shorthand, but a backhanded slap at other people's playstyles. Heck, [url=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3605949&postcount=6]Aeric's post 6[/url] pretty much called it right out. In his words its shorthand for "lazy DMs looked at the list of magic items in the DMG, saw the prices next to them, and decided that they would be available on demand, off-the-rack, in any community that could support the cost." In other words, it's a perjorative term. It refers to lazy DM's. [url=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3606026&postcount=12]Nellisar in Post 12[/url] says "Magic-marts are a handy exaggeration that people bring up when they want to be snobbish about how -they- game." [url=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3606070&postcount=16]Post 16[/url] says, "It works if you assume your NPCs have no personalities or agenda of their own, other than to trade and create magic for your characters to purchase, but I think the system falls short and indeed looks Magic Mart like." That's just in the first page of this thread and this thread has been pretty well mannered. How anyone could think that Magic Walmart is a neutral term is beyond me when people all over the place are specifically using it in a perjorative sense. [/QUOTE]

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