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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3613482" data-attributes="member: 18280">There is no low magic campaign that is not.Perhaps, but I knew who would be playing when I set up the environment, so it came as no surprise.My definition of a MagicMart is a single place where one can buy whatever (or nearly whatever) magic items one wants at book (or near book) value.  This is what the term implies to me, just as if I went to Walmart, I would do so because I knew I could do one-stop shopping at a known (or close to known) price."Magic Shop" doesn't imply that one can buy whatever (or nearly whatever) magic items one wants at book (or near book) value.Teleport or handwaving can be used in such a way as to make several places effectively one place.  However, multiple places do not have to be handwaved in this fashion.  Nor do multiple places have to have everything one wants (no matter how many places) nor do they have to be priced according to book value.MagicMart is a type of magic shop, IMHO.  A "Magic Shop" may be a "MagicMart", but does not have to be.  This is similar to the idea that a shark is a fish, but not all fish are sharks.  A lion is a feline, but not all felines are lions.  Etc., etc., etc.One Stop Shopping is a modern concept.  Using Teleport to allow effective "one stop shopping" feels modern because in this case Teleportation is a handwave device to allow a particular concept to work, much as the technobabble of Star Trek allows certain plot devices to work.EDIT:  D&D contains all sorts of modernisms, of course.  The question is, for each player/DM/group, what modernisms break/fold/spindle/mutilate your sense of disbelief and/or immersion in the game?  Those are modernisms you probably don't want to include.  So, for those people who like sharks, it seems wrong to differentiate them from other fish.  For those who like many types of fish, but not in most cases sharks, it seems proper to say "no sharks in this campaign".</blockquote>

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