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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5884167" data-attributes="member: 89822">The title reminded me of an incident which has haunted me for months now... (3.5)Midlevel PCs had collected bunch of magical weapons that were basically useless to them (mostly longswords +1). In my game there are no active markets for magical items, so they felt that they were stuck with those items.So after a short adventure they met a riddling sphinx, who made an offer to the players: He would trade five magical weapons to a shield +1 of spell resistance (SR 13). Two of the PCs always used shields and they were both +1 (and nothing more).My players immediately exclaimed: "That is unfair! We give you FIVE magical weapons and only get one stinking shield! No way!" There was general consensus among the players that the deal was unfair, plain and simple.I didn't want to metagame and explain them that five longswords +1 are useless to them and the total cost is about 11k gp. Shield +1 of spell resistance is 9k gp. So yes, they would have lost in this deal, but usually you sell items for half its price, so I felt that this was a good deal.. Right? At best they could have sold the items below their full value and the money wasn't as good having a useful shield.Baffled I let the situation go, but it still bothers me... I mean, what the heck?</blockquote>