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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8678307" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Ho, a magicianmart type campaign you had. A lot of things it explains.Scrolls, you had to pen them. Meaning you had to pay for the spell costs while creating them. If you went to buy one, the cost of actually casting the spell was in addition to the cost of the scroll. Having a henchmen doing for you was not free. If anything, you had to pay him even more to keep this hence happy and loyal. Druid might not be available for hire, especially for dungeon delving. NPC druids would not approach a dungeon, but a cave network I could agree. Only PCs ever went into dungeons. But I tight be doable. A caster would charge a pretty steep salary. That NPC might even requires a share in addition to his salary! As for magical items. Low level ones were expected to be found easily, but if you were playing with henchmen, it was expected that some the additional magical items would be donated to your henchmen. So selling these was not usually a thing that would often occur (unless you found zounds of them, them.their prices would go down asagic would not be that rare...)For money. Did you trained? Did you pay for your henchmen training? Money in a standard AD&D was not that plentiful. A wizard was notoriously money broke forest of his career until named level was reached. Then the building of a tower, paying for new spells (as transcribing from scrolls was not always a success) were also a money drain that was quite effective.Even spells were hard to find for an arcane caster as they had to either be found (random), bought (more money drain) or researched (even more money drain). I have seen groups putting their money into a pool so that their wizard(s) could have a spell for his new level. There were no cast at a higher level and if you had found no way to have a third level spells, then that cool new 5th level wizard would not cast any third level spells even if he was able. 1ed was a lot harder on casters.</blockquote>

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