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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6556957" data-attributes="member: 221">Some points - firstly, while low level PCs might not get invited to such auctions, in most campaigns, by the time the PCs are high level, they very likely would be exactly the sort of person who would be invited - they have money, connections and desire at that point, all of which make them ideal. If you have secret magic-item auctions going on somewhere in your world then you must consider the possibility of your players wanting to be a part of it in some fashion when they learn of it. As for players selling items, sure advertising you have a magic item for sale would attract thieves. Why not? But why assume the thieves are successful 100% of the time rather than merely a fun diversion for the players? And would not such advertising attract buyers also. I suspect if you tell your players their advertising attracts lots of thieves but nobody ever wants to buy off of them, they are going to start having serious doubts about the verisimilitude of your world. The point remains that, if the DM does not want magic items bought and sold in his game world, there is no inherent reason for magic items to be a commodity, until the players make it a commodity.  But it is only common sense to realize that if the players have free-will, which they do, they themselves have the ability to make magic a commodity and the wise DM is prepared for this eventuality and the prepared DM is wiser for doing so.</blockquote>

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