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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3624028" data-attributes="member: 18280">This is similar to the Standard Wealth Per Level Guidelines.  Nowhere in the text does it say that you have to follow those guidelines; I have become convinced by the arguments of others that they are provided to help you determine the relative value of CR/EL in the game.  Nonetheless, that is not the only possible interpretation, nor is "The RAW does not mandate MagicMarts" the only possible interpretation of the written word.  I agree that it is the best possible interpretation but that doesn't mean that it is what the vast majority or even the majority at all understand when they read the rules.I think this is very similar to the OP's thread about why we had such different experiences with 1e.  We read the rules through a "reader filter" that causes us to interpret them in different ways.  When a poster says "This campaign has no Magic Walmarts", I take it to mean that that poster does believe that Magic Walmarts are normative, either through his experience or through his understanding of the RAW.  The fact that people argued in this thread that the RAW leads to Magic Walmarts tends to bolster this belief IMHO.OTOH, my belief that the RAW should not be intended to imply MagicMarts (whether or not I think it does to some readers) shouldn't be taken as a condemnation of MagicMarts for those who like them.  As I said earlier, I can easily imagine settings in which MagicMarts (as I define them) make sense and would add to the flavour of the setting.If the question asked by the OP is, "Does the RAW mandate Magic Walmarts" then the answer is No (or at least, Not Necessarily  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Frankly, though, I wish that the OP would please rephrase the question so that we clearly know what is being asked. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> RC</blockquote>

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