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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3623994" data-attributes="member: 30001">It's hard to tell what the original intent of the OP was - but my feeling when I reread it is that the &quot;magic wallmart myth&quot; was used as a criticism for standard magic level DnD.&nbsp; What he was saying is that standard magic level DnD doesn't have magic wallmarts.&nbsp; The existence of magic wallmarts in someone's campaign is largely irrelevant to this original point.&nbsp; IME making irrelevant statements after other's people's statements can often be construed as a refutation - though reading carefully can dispel that so I understand your decision to be clear about what you're saying.&nbsp; But IMO the bottom line is that this line of reasoning doesn't actually refute (and hardly addresses) the OP.&nbsp; I think it's likely that by the &quot;magic wallmart myth&quot;, the OP meant, not only the central store as you define it - but also that such a store was a standard part of 3E campaigns and that the rules almost mandated it (eg. comments about Greyhawk et. al.).&nbsp; That definition seems implicit in the first post.&nbsp; Otherwise the OP becomes something like &quot;nowhere, anywhere, ever, has there ever been a polka-dotted dragon&quot; - which is pointless and uninteresting (and most likely wrong).&nbsp; I really don't think that's what the OP was getting at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 3623994, member: 30001"] It's hard to tell what the original intent of the OP was - but my feeling when I reread it is that the "magic wallmart myth" was used as a criticism for standard magic level DnD. What he was saying is that standard magic level DnD doesn't have magic wallmarts. The [i]existence[/i] of magic wallmarts in [i]someone's[/i] campaign is largely irrelevant to this original point. IME making irrelevant statements after other's people's statements can often be construed as a refutation - though reading carefully can dispel that so I understand your decision to be clear about what you're saying. But IMO the bottom line is that this line of reasoning doesn't actually refute (and hardly addresses) the OP. I think it's likely that by the "magic wallmart myth", the OP meant, not only the central store as you define it - but also that such a store was a standard part of 3E campaigns and that the rules almost mandated it (eg. comments about Greyhawk et. al.). That definition seems implicit in the first post. Otherwise the OP becomes something like "nowhere, anywhere, ever, has there ever been a polka-dotted dragon" - which is pointless and uninteresting (and most likely wrong). I really don't think that's what the OP was getting at. [/QUOTE]

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