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<blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 9331532" data-attributes="member: 7020832"><p>My post was given in response to your post:</p><p></p><p></p><p>You seemed to suggest that having a magical item shop was unrealistic because anyone in possession of magical weapons wouldn’t sell them, but would instead stockpile them to be the most powerful faction around.</p><p></p><p>This ignores a host of other possibilities:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the seller has other priorities than outfitting and army and wielding temporal power (selling magical weapons to multiple sides to exacerbate and prolong a conflict);</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the seller isn’t meaningfully around (a djinn in the plane of air with a teleportation circle in Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep);</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the seller is one of several high power factions so stockpiling and taking over isn’t an option;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">what the seller receives in exchange for the weapons is more valuable to them than the weapons sold;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">there are other forms of power that trump being able to create multiple magical weapons.</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>No. A person that is able to create and sell multiple magical weapons is powerful, but it doesn’t follow that they are the most powerful group around.</p><p></p><p>Take Waterdeep. It is a location with multiple 20th level NPCs. Is an 11th level spellcaster that focuses on creating and selling magical items the most powerful person around? Not in a city with Elminster and the Masked Lord.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrozenNorth, post: 9331532, member: 7020832"] My post was given in response to your post: You seemed to suggest that having a magical item shop was unrealistic because anyone in possession of magical weapons wouldn’t sell them, but would instead stockpile them to be the most powerful faction around. This ignores a host of other possibilities: [LIST] [*]the seller has other priorities than outfitting and army and wielding temporal power (selling magical weapons to multiple sides to exacerbate and prolong a conflict); [*]the seller isn’t meaningfully around (a djinn in the plane of air with a teleportation circle in Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep); [*]the seller is one of several high power factions so stockpiling and taking over isn’t an option; [*]what the seller receives in exchange for the weapons is more valuable to them than the weapons sold; [*]there are other forms of power that trump being able to create multiple magical weapons. [/LIST] No. A person that is able to create and sell multiple magical weapons is powerful, but it doesn’t follow that they are the most powerful group around. Take Waterdeep. It is a location with multiple 20th level NPCs. Is an 11th level spellcaster that focuses on creating and selling magical items the most powerful person around? Not in a city with Elminster and the Masked Lord. [/QUOTE]
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