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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6556942" data-attributes="member: 22779">I mean, how many of you could find someone who was selling a Lambourgini without using the Internet or a phone book?  Purely through word of mouth, could you find someone selling a Lambo?  it's not like they're that rare.  There are tens of thousands of Lambo's out there on the roads.  But, without modern resources like telephones, newspapers and the Internet, could you find someone willing to sell you one?</blockquote>There have been art auctions for many, many years - long before the internet; and while masterpiece art pieces are incredibly rare and always one of a kind, it is sort of true that there are always one or two of them for sale here or there. Anytime the buyer values the item more than the seller there is the potential for commerce and a transaction. Even with rare magic items, it is actually fairly implausible to me that there would never be any for sell; especially considering death and estates and bandits and what have you. There will always be someone who owns an item who does not value it as much as perhaps they should; unless you go the LotR route where all the powerful magical items put an unhealthy hold upon the one using them so that they are rarely ever parted with because of the mind control going on (but even that only works for an item or two before it wears thin).[/QUOTE]But, again, how do you, itinerant mercenary vagabond with few or no ties to the city you happen to be staying in, get invited to a "magic auction"?  Wouldn't that sort of thing be restricted to the very upper levels of society?  And wouldn't advertising that you were trying to sell one of these very high priced pieces put you smack dab on the radar for every thief out there to come knocking?It's not terribly unreasonable that magic items might not be fungible on a practical level.  Sure, magic items might be bought and sold in some very specialized sections of society, but, how exactly do you insinuate your PC into that society?There's no inherent reason for magic items to be a commodity.  They can be, sure.  But, not necessarily so.[/QUOTE]

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