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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 3619500" data-attributes="member: 20564">Just to give a real-life example, one game I play in is in the FR, and if we're in a big city for a long period (several weeks or more) of time we can basically find or commission anything we're looking for.If we're there for a short time or it's a small place, it's a different story.The Realms is supposed to be high magic (take Calimishan, with lots of magical "luxuries").  A very active large community in most places (take Amn and Cormyr) mean that both there are people who cater to it for huge profit plus the adventurers themselves flooding the market with loot they aren't interested in.Think general stores during the American gold rush that charged orders of magnitude more.  Compare the returns for a week of making magic items vs. a week of profession or craft skill.  Item crafting is much more lucrative.  And if an item crafter has gotten up to the minimum caster level where they can take the feats (say, 5th for craft wondrous), then they know how to get XP.  So helping the militia clear out a wild boar or such is a piddling amount of XP for a 5th level character - but since each XP works out to be 12.5gp in profit in a world where that's a lot of money to non-adventurers, well...  let's just say that if the economy provides a demand for magic items, selling a supply of them is a very quick and relatively painless way toward becoming well off.As a real life example of a low-magic game, the game I run is lower then standard wealth.  Potions can be found many places, especially temples like to have someone who can make cures because they always bring in big donations and there is a steady demand, plus alchemists who also make other items (acid, alch. fire, etc).  Scroll shops are rare but finding someone to make one isn't hard since every 1st level wizard gets the feat.  Above that you're really using gather information checks to either track down a small random list of what's in the market and/or what people have and isn't for sale but might be for the right price, or different gather information checks to find some you can commission an item from with the appropriate feat and then wait for it to be done.High magic exists, and "magic wal-marts" may not be literally what happens, but is basically the concept that if a place can sell items that size, it includes magic items.  It's not that there is a single store, but more that it's a commodity that can be purchased.Good luck,=Blue(23)</blockquote>

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