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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3616577" data-attributes="member: 18280">Spelljammer, I think, makes the myth much less of a myth.&nbsp; Since Spelljammer tied together Faerun, Oerth, and Ansalon, you could presumably find Arcane on every official D&amp;D world (except Athlas) in 2e anyway, which means that, from an &quot;official&quot; standpoint, MagicMarts were pretty widespread.&nbsp; I've heard on this thread about Dragonmarked Houses and Red Wizards setting up MagicMarts in Eberron and Faerun.You absolutely may be right -- everyone who ever used a MagicMart might have chimed in on this thread.&nbsp; That might be it.&nbsp; But I don't think that we can say how common MagicMarts are with any degree of certainty.You're thinking the literal &quot;Magic Walmart&quot; is an internet myth, but that requires you to disbelieve or ignore each and every claim to such on this thread (and others).Admittedly, I prefer &quot;MagicMart&quot; to &quot;Walmart&quot;.&nbsp; But I believe that when people say &quot;Magical Walmart&quot; they are trying to denote that the concept reminds them of Walmart, and ruins the sense of immersion for them.&nbsp; Just as, when I say &quot;Pokemount&quot; I mean to imply that the flavour of the 3.X paladin's mount reminds me a bit too much of Pokemon, which ruins the sense of immersion for me.That doesn't mean that people who feel differently suck because they don't think the same way I do.&nbsp; Different strokes for different folks.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3616577, member: 18280"] Spelljammer, I think, makes the myth much less of a myth. Since Spelljammer tied together Faerun, Oerth, and Ansalon, you could presumably find Arcane on every official D&D world (except Athlas) in 2e anyway, which means that, from an "official" standpoint, MagicMarts were pretty widespread. I've heard on this thread about Dragonmarked Houses and Red Wizards setting up MagicMarts in Eberron and Faerun. [i]You absolutely may be right[/i] -- everyone who ever used a MagicMart might have chimed in on this thread. That might be it. But I don't think that we can say how common MagicMarts are with any degree of certainty. You're thinking the literal "Magic Walmart" is an internet myth, but that requires you to disbelieve or ignore each and every claim to such on this thread (and others). Admittedly, I prefer "MagicMart" to "Walmart". But I believe that when people say "Magical Walmart" they are trying to denote that the concept reminds them of Walmart, and ruins the sense of immersion for them. Just as, when I say "Pokemount" I mean to imply that the flavour of the 3.X paladin's mount reminds me a bit too much of Pokemon, which ruins the sense of immersion for me. That doesn't mean that people who feel differently suck because they don't think the same way I do. Different strokes for different folks. RC [/QUOTE]

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