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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6557521" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>And this rolls right back around to a point I made a long time ago in this thread.</p><p></p><p>Fungible magic items have HUGE setting implications. Now magic is so common that it's used for advertising? Spreading word around town helps you in that town, sure, but, beyond that town? How long is that bard going to have to stand on a corner spreading work that you're selling a magic sword that only three people in the town could possibly afford, even if they actually wanted to buy one? How often are itinerant, vastly wealthy, "adventurers" passing through town to be able to hear/see your advertising and take you up on it?</p><p></p><p>These are huge setting changers. I don't want magic reduced down to bloody sky writing air elementals. It's fine for a joke setting, but, not something I want to run. It also means that there are enough high level casters running around that doing something like that is actually an option. Again, fine for 3e style demographics, but, again, you're now forcing everyone playing the game to follow your play style. Every town has to have multiple high level casters according to the demographics. Not what I want.</p><p></p><p>See, the point here is, what caters to the broadest play styles. By catering to the "I want a price list" crowd, everyone has to play D&D like it was 3e/Pathfinder. Every world has to work that way, because of the presumptions in game world design. Leaving the price list to each DM, with everything from "No, you can't buy magic items" to "Magic items are up to the DM" allows everyone to have their cake.</p><p></p><p>Yup, those that want the price list have to do some leg work. True. The 5e DMG does include some guidelines, but, they're pretty basic. Then again, what's stopping you form using the 3e price lists? Last I checked, the Hypertext SRD was still going, so, those price lists are still completely accessible. Why can't you use those? It's not like price lists don't exist anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6557521, member: 22779"] And this rolls right back around to a point I made a long time ago in this thread. Fungible magic items have HUGE setting implications. Now magic is so common that it's used for advertising? Spreading word around town helps you in that town, sure, but, beyond that town? How long is that bard going to have to stand on a corner spreading work that you're selling a magic sword that only three people in the town could possibly afford, even if they actually wanted to buy one? How often are itinerant, vastly wealthy, "adventurers" passing through town to be able to hear/see your advertising and take you up on it? These are huge setting changers. I don't want magic reduced down to bloody sky writing air elementals. It's fine for a joke setting, but, not something I want to run. It also means that there are enough high level casters running around that doing something like that is actually an option. Again, fine for 3e style demographics, but, again, you're now forcing everyone playing the game to follow your play style. Every town has to have multiple high level casters according to the demographics. Not what I want. See, the point here is, what caters to the broadest play styles. By catering to the "I want a price list" crowd, everyone has to play D&D like it was 3e/Pathfinder. Every world has to work that way, because of the presumptions in game world design. Leaving the price list to each DM, with everything from "No, you can't buy magic items" to "Magic items are up to the DM" allows everyone to have their cake. Yup, those that want the price list have to do some leg work. True. The 5e DMG does include some guidelines, but, they're pretty basic. Then again, what's stopping you form using the 3e price lists? Last I checked, the Hypertext SRD was still going, so, those price lists are still completely accessible. Why can't you use those? It's not like price lists don't exist anywhere. [/QUOTE]
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