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2nd Edition came out in 1989, and it was the last edition before we started seeing magic item shops. What happened between 1989 and 2000, when 3rd edition came out and put price tags on every magic item?
The magic-flush Eberron setting of 3rd edition, for another, doesn t have magic item shops so much as Dragonmarked Houses essentially dungeonpunk megacorporations that produce and sell them mostly to high-class clientele e. Trying to run other kinds of fantasy in D D can be difficult - the odd monsters, the way magic works, the idea of levels, party dynamics, the commonality of magic items even in relatively stingy 5e.
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An alternative to the magic item shop (1 Viewer)
I've been meaning to post something about this for a bit, as it's such a perennial topic, and this thread finally prodded me into doing it.
There is a common complaint about the idea of magic items shops, saying that they're make magic items - something that ought to be unique a special - commoditised; it's unrealistic that all this stuff would be just lying around; people walking into - or out of -shops with 500,000gp in cash, and so.
But as Leonaru points out in the linked thread the 2e DMG specifically denies the existence of magic items shops while the modules simultaneous head the PCs down with +1 crap. Where do they go to get rid of this stuff? Where indeed.
The thing is, there's a real world example right under our noses of exactly this - rare, non-commoditised good whose value exceeds that of most people's liquid cash reserves - the fine art and antiques market.
So, you don't have magic item shops (except for cheap tat), what you have is brokers, agents and auction houses. Just like you can't walk in off the street and by a genuine Van Gogh, you can't buy a +5 holy avenger either. You can wait for one to come out on the open market, and the breathtakingly expensive auction that follows (which could be an adventure in and of itself, with factions and skullduggery), or you can approach a broker who may knows someone who knows someone who might have one in his or her collection, and be willing to part with it for the right price - or method of payment.
Want to sell a +2 bow? travel to the elven kingdoms where there's more demand. An axe? go talk to the dwarves. Maybe they'll have something less culturally suited to them that they'll be happy to swap.
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