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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3619628" data-attributes="member: 22779">Hrm, speaking of straw men.  Holy Avenger 120, 630 gp.  Maximum gp limit for ANY city is 100k gp.  So, yeah, you're right, you can't find a Holy Avenger on the shelf of any city by RAW.  Yet, people feel the need to specifically state this like they are somehow departing from RAW, as if the RAW would allow this behavior in the first place.  Just like stating "No Magic WalMarts" as if magic walmarts were somehow the standard dictated by RAW.As far as dismissing the paladin's mount, I go the other way.  I think of the paladin's mount as tangible proof of the divine in the paladin.  Not only is this holy warrior a warrior of a god, but his god actually sends a servant down from the heavens to carry him into the battle.  I remember a very old cartoon called Hercules where Hercules would open the front of his magic belt and flash a signal to Mount Olympus.  That would cause the Pegasus to descend from the heavens to carry Hercules into battle with whatever monster the evil Daedelus had brought up.  To me, that's the flavour of the 3.5 paladin's mount.  Comparing it to a small yellow ratlike creature that shoots lightning bolts and lives in a ball, with no connection whatsover to the divine, seems very dismissive and unimaginative to me.  But, that's the point.  People are using pokemount specifically to get a reaction.  It's effectively Godwinning the discussion, since it closes down any meaningful discourse.Given the years of editions wars, is it really surprising that I would see something like "Magic Walmart" with all its negative connotations as yet another cheap edition shot?  It's a vague term that doesn't actually fit with the RAW at all and only serves to take wrongbadfun shots at how other people game.  You don't have magic shops?  Great!  No worries.  But, the idea of centralized magic shops isn't part of RAW, nor is it assumed in most published settings (with notable exceptions).  Comparing the Byzantine politics of the Houses in Eberron to Walmart is not constructive.  It's reductive and frankly, wrong.</blockquote>

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