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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9324342" data-attributes="member: 52734">I've been playing over 40 years, and I dare say I've been much more stingy with magic items than most DMs I know.  I really dislike magic shops in general (beyond the occasional alchemy shop and the like).I could hand you a college-lined sheet of paper from our 2E campaign (14th level characters) with a double-columned list of treasure and magic items on it, about 90% of which came from official modules.  The party had so much gold that to get it down to a reasonable level, I came up with a wandering magic shop (using the DMG pricing from 1E) - the only time I can recall using it.  They bought a couple items (I recall a girdle of frost giant strength being one), but to my dismay they ended up selling most of the extra magic items they had to the shop. (I still have the paper with all the original stuff on it, I kept it as a record for nostalgia's sake).Then they used the money to buy a title (Baron) from the local king, as well as a plot land. They used the remaining funds to build a castle for the paladin, and with some creative uses of move earth and the like created a secret base underneath.The magic shop didn't kill the game, so its still part of the lore (and I managed to resist using it in 3E).  With 5E, I haven't even had to think about using it.</blockquote>