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<blockquote data-quote="nevin" data-source="post: 8163162" data-attributes="member: 7024481"><p>I don't like it. If players want to spend thier money on luxery and they have to do without magic items to do that, there is nothing wrong with that. In the current game I play a wizard who is also working on becoming a rich powerful business man in the town we operate from. I do without things all the time because I have to divide my resources and time. The only reason pathfinders gold system makes no sense is they screwed up by making magic item prices insane. If a game has a typical poor economy one +3 sword is a ridiculous amount of money. What I do when I run my games is magic item prices are based on what the market can bear. That +2 sword may be worth 4000 gp but if you are out in the boonies in a small town, 400gp may be the most anyone can afford. Now if your in the capital city where magic items are easy to find a +1 sword may only sell for 300 to 400 gp because they are easy to find and the merchant may have 9 in inventory. </p><p></p><p>If your going to go by book prices for pathfinder, to make it work you have to assume everyone adventuring has the normal amount of christmas tree items worth the amount they should have by level. Which is fine if your playing high magic. If not forget the books and just charge em or pay em what the current market should bear. Which may mean if they need money badly that portable hole may only bring 10,000 gp because no one can afford more than that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nevin, post: 8163162, member: 7024481"] I don't like it. If players want to spend thier money on luxery and they have to do without magic items to do that, there is nothing wrong with that. In the current game I play a wizard who is also working on becoming a rich powerful business man in the town we operate from. I do without things all the time because I have to divide my resources and time. The only reason pathfinders gold system makes no sense is they screwed up by making magic item prices insane. If a game has a typical poor economy one +3 sword is a ridiculous amount of money. What I do when I run my games is magic item prices are based on what the market can bear. That +2 sword may be worth 4000 gp but if you are out in the boonies in a small town, 400gp may be the most anyone can afford. Now if your in the capital city where magic items are easy to find a +1 sword may only sell for 300 to 400 gp because they are easy to find and the merchant may have 9 in inventory. If your going to go by book prices for pathfinder, to make it work you have to assume everyone adventuring has the normal amount of christmas tree items worth the amount they should have by level. Which is fine if your playing high magic. If not forget the books and just charge em or pay em what the current market should bear. Which may mean if they need money badly that portable hole may only bring 10,000 gp because no one can afford more than that. [/QUOTE]
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