What to see at a mage fair?

Iron Alchemist! Today's secret ingredient is....?

(for added fun, it's your PC's brains) Maybe not.

Depending on the ambient alignment of the place, you might have interesting things for sale, like refurbished familiars, or indentured apprentices.

And turkey leg vendors. Gotta have a turkey leg vendor. Maybe dire turkey legs...
 

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A hospital with cures for any ailment, no matter how exotic. From mummy rot to vile damage to ressurections.

A guild specializing in the destruction of cursed items.

An archive of collected knowledge, stories, and spell of all participants over the last thousand years. Bringing something new to add to this library may be the fairs admission price.
 

Teleshar's Trinkets

The yellow and blue striped tent is very well lit with incense burning in the corner. Behind the counter stands an old Elf woman; Teleshar, it would be safe to assume. She is dressed like a ragged wandering gypsie, but the glint in her eyes indicates a quick intellegence forged through years of formal study. In this tent, Teleshar is selling a wide variety of trinkets and baubles of various designs, mostly spun from glass and crystal and accented in either copper or silver, all enchented with minor catrips. Other than their asounding beauty and interesting magical effects, nothing in the tent is of significance or importance, moslty nick-nacks to impress the locals. Unless one is searching with an astute or magical eye.

True Seeing or some other appropriate ability detects that Teleshar is not actually in the room, but instead projecting an image that can be traced through a portal. The image is so advanced that anyone who attempts to follw the portal is incorporated into the image, appearing as if in conversation with the old elf. The portal leeds to a room with no other exists that Teleshar has created to sell her more importatnt wares: exclusive material components that can mimic metamagic effects, unique high-level spells, and for the very astute, she can even teach the basics of epic magic.

Those seeking audience with her regarding her secret services notice she is mostly distracted while selling her more powerful items and knowledge, paying more attention to the glass she is spinning in her hands, magically shaping her next trinket as she conducts the sale.
 
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Well, first thing popping into my mind is Fritz Leiber's absolutely brilliant short story (one of the earlier Fafhrd & Grey Mouser stories, plus the inspiration for Bob Aspirin's hilarious Another Fine Myth series) "The Bazaar of the Bizarre." That alone is a must read.

Well, here's one idea I don't think anyone's mentioned: have some wizards trying to sell *rare spells*. Ones nobody has heard of and not in the PHB or any supplement.

Another is having vendors selling artifacts of unknown provenance and mysterious power.

A third idea is the vendor of Apparel for Wizards. You've got the standard pointed hats, midnight blue robes, pointy shoes, but then you might also have the 1970s style Prog Rock Wizard look, as typified by Yes synthesizer ace Rick Wakeman. We're talking outlandish capes made of polyester, colored loudly, all stitched with gaudy sequins, and built so that the cape shimmers with a spectral flash as Wakeman shifts from one keyboard pad to another.
 

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I have all complete books, the core rulebooks for 3.5, Tome of Battle, All Races of the Wild, Destiny and so on, the spell compendium and the player's handbook 1+2. dungeon master 1+2.all forgotten realms material

Waau........ you all got some great ideas, thanks
 


What to see, How about a spellwarped invisable stalker [or worse] brutally kill someone in the middle of the fair?

smootrk said:
You must have a Taxidermist, specializing in rare monstrosities. He might even be a contact for employment (sending PC's out for creatures to stuff).
With onyx tounges available upon request :].
 


Nightfall said:
Cause hordes of demons are more fun! ;)
Well an improved inviso'ed barghest could work for the invisible horror that devoures the target, but a spellwarped creature is going to really shine at a mage-fair.
 


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