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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1692348" data-attributes="member: 1645">If you look at the prices of magic items and the wages of common folk, it's clear that no normal person can afford magic.  Only wealthy aristocrats and plutocrats have the wealth to buy magic items, and it's not clear that they'd pay that kind of money for what they get.  Certainly healing magic would find a market.  And warrior-aristocrats would buy magical arms and armor for themselves, even if hiring more soldiers would be a better use of that money.But who's going to go to the magic shop with thousands of gold pieces to buy whatever's on hand?  And who's going to run a shop full of millions of gold pieces' worth of merchandise?  All of it just sitting there, getting no use.  Really, a magic shop is an arsenal, requiring its own magically protected castle full of soldiers to protect it from theft.</blockquote>