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If you base your decision on the type of items for sale ("only potions and scrolls," for example), vote according to Item type. If you base your decision on the rarity of the items instead ("only Common, Uncommon, and Rare items"), use the boxes for Rarity. If you base this decision on a combination of different types of criteria, click for everything that applies. And if you don't allow the purchase of any magic items at all, slap that "No magic items for sale" option.

Both because only a very bad merchant would pay more than market value for something they need to turn a profit on, but also because keeping selling prices significantly lower than buying prices helps avoid over-inflation and characters becoming incredibly wealthy. You should be mindful that the suggested prices in the Dungeon Master s Guide have a pretty wide range a very rare item is worth between 5,001 gp and 50,000 gp, for example.

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D&D 5E Magic Item Shops in Your Campaign

The discussion about magic item costs in 5E Level Up thread has sent me down a rabbit-hole. I'm curious about how the folks at ENWorld handle "shopping lists" and magic item purchases in their D&D campaigns. Specifically, I'm curious what items are available for purchase, which ones aren't, and what the criteria that drives that decision.

To the polls, fellow voters!

Choose a city in your D&D game world, the closest one to what your characters would consider "home base," the place where they are expected to do their shopping. Then vote for the items that can be purchased there, checking as many boxes as are applicable.

If you base your decision on the type of items for sale ("only potions and scrolls," for example), vote according to Item type. If you base your decision on the rarity of the items instead ("only Common, Uncommon, and Rare items"), use the boxes for Rarity. If you base this decision on a combination of different types of criteria, click for everything that applies. And if you don't allow the purchase of any magic items at all, slap that "No magic items for sale" option.

As always, feel free to add any nuance and clarification in the comments. Thanks for your time!

Swarmkeeper

Hero

CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

Woops! Sorry about that. (It was a long list, and it's been a long morning. )

I fixed it; Scrolls now appear at the very bottom.

CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

In the "hometown" for my players, they can buy single-use items like potions and scrolls with little trouble. There's a small chance that the might find a magic item from Table B or Table F for sale, but it's never guaranteed. And in all cases, the players understand that there's a 1 in 10 chance that any magic item their character purchases could be cursed, fake, or mislabeled (this was discussed with the players beforehand at Session Zero and agreed upon).

Cadence

Legend

They don't really have a base, and their home village was tiny.

The three big metropolis probably have about everything short of a legendary item or artifact for sale somewhere, or someone who would make it for the right price. Whether the party can find that person and afford it is a different matter.

Wasn't sure how to vote so checked everything except the legendary and artifacts.

Thunder Brother

God Learner

In the city of the Sternwall, renowned for its commerce and industry, there are many things that may strike the interest of an adventurer. However, magic items are generally rare and require good connections if you seek them out.

Now, you can get your weapon or armor made with Sternwall Steel, which gives a bonus to damage but is otherwise unmagical. magical runic enchantments can be commissioned from a runesmith, a profession dominated by dwarves and humans from the South.

If you know the right people, you may enquire at The Ink and Quill about any curios that have recently passed through. But usually such items require a hefty amount of gold and a good reputation with a made member of the Syndicate.

A magister at the University of Sternwall may be able to throw a spell scroll your way, but the price may involve recovering a missing book or other historical artifact.

And naturally there are people carrying around relatively common-place magical items; wealthy freemen, prominent nobles, veteran bodyguards, etc. You could obtain one of these items, but that may require some theft and/or violence.

Anyway, I treat magical items as rare rewards that have some kind of story attached to them or a distinct place in the world. In addition, acquiring them often becomes a story by itself. I don't accept "shopping lists", and honestly find the idea of them to be silly.

Hexmage-EN

Legend

In my current campaign I have a magic item seller who is most definitely evil and backed by the (probably evil) secretive mage who oversees that section of the Underdark. He's not against jacking-up prices on a whim. Also, a lot of his items were probably obtained by unsavory means and deals with evil creatures.

It adds an element of "hey, we can buy this stuff, but should we be giving money to this guy?"

As for security, most of the higher end-merchandise isn't on the premises, the buyers themselves consult a catalog rather than getting to browse directly, the person handling transactions is behind a barrier, and the floor has multiple glyphs of warding against troublemakers.

aco175

Legend

Last campaign we played was in Phandalin and there the PCs could get a few healing potions and a few other small potions and maybe a low level scroll. They needed to go to Waterdeep and see the guild to get anything they really wanted. There could be others in town that had an item and wanted to trade or sell and the guild could act as a middle man to swap. There is always a chance to not have something. Roll high on the d20.

Swarmkeeper

Hero

Woops! Sorry about that. (It was a long list, and it's been a long morning. )

I fixed it; Scrolls now appear at the very bottom.

Cool - now what about an option for: “None because WotC’s designers refuse and/or are too inept to provide ample game mechanics for my desired magic item economy?”

(EDIT: meant this as a joke - I’m more than happy that the 5e default from XGtE is “purchasing a magic item requires time and money to seek out and contact people willing to sell items. Even then, there is no guarantee a seller will have the items a character desires.” Ye Olde Magic Shoppes are just not our table’s thing. That said I don’t mind some very minor single use items to sometimes be available depending on the campaign)

CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

Cool - now what about an option for: “None because WotC’s designers refuse and/or are too inept to provide ample game mechanics for my desired magic item economy?”

Thunder Brother

God Learner

Cool - now what about an option for: “None because WotC’s designers refuse and/or are too inept to provide ample game mechanics for my desired magic item economy?”

Ath-kethin

Elder Thing

No magic item shops in my campaigns, ever. No magic items for sale, even the goofy potion listed in the Player's Handbook.

That doesn't mean items can never be purchased, it just means that finding a seller can be an adventure on its own. And even then, I feel it cheapens the very concept of magic to have any kind of magic weapons or armor for sale.

Hexmage-EN

Legend

I think I just like giving PCs toys to play with, especially consumables. I've included a number of homebrew magic items, too. Letting them look through and buy what they want is more likely to result in a player getting something that appeals to them.

Vaalingrade

Legend

They're everywhere and there are competing magic item corporations of varying levels of evil. I like fantastic rather than special magic and prefer my players get what they want rather than what I give them.

Lakesidefantasy

Hero

The discussion about magic item costs in 5E Level Up thread has sent me down a rabbit-hole. I'm curious about how the folks at ENWorld handle "shopping lists" and magic item purchases in their D&D campaigns. Specifically, I'm curious what items are available for purchase, which ones aren't, and what the criteria that drives that decision.

To the polls, fellow voters!

Choose a city in your D&D game world, the closest one to what your characters would consider "home base," the place where they are expected to do their shopping. Then vote for the items that can be purchased there, checking as many boxes as are applicable.

If you base your decision on the type of items for sale ("only potions and scrolls," for example), vote according to Item type. If you base your decision on the rarity of the items instead ("only Common, Uncommon, and Rare items"), use the boxes for Rarity. If you base this decision on a combination of different types of criteria, click for everything that applies. And if you don't allow the purchase of any magic items at all, slap that "No magic items for sale" option.

As always, feel free to add any nuance and clarification in the comments. Thanks for your time!

cbwjm

Legend

I had a magic shop in one city that had common items, potions, and scrolls. Players couldn't buy just anything though. Any 1st to 2nd level spell scroll could be bought, above that stock was limited, same with uncommon potions.

Other items could be requested and the shop owner could help facilitate finding a seller of an item.

Ralif Redhammer

Legend

Though I voted "None," even with my high magitech campaign, that's not entirely correct. You cannot just buy a magic item, sure, but you can find plenty of crafters that will make one for you. if you can just get the right materials. And that's going to involve going on an adventure. If a PC really wants a certain magic item, I can use that as a hook for an adventure.

tetrasodium

Legend

o5e complicates matters as gm by not having any room i the sytem's math allocations for magic items & shifting so much PC power onto the class/archetype itself. If Salvatore started writing drizzt for 5e's design he'd just be powerful like some overpowered wuxia/isekai protagonist instead of becoming powerful as he gains magic items & experience through combat. Because of bounded accuracy they become one & done if you as the gm force some room for magic items into the system too.

I allow wide latitude in what players could theoretically buy in my games, but with little more than the size of damage dice it's very difficult to get players to care

Yaarel

Mind Mage

I love high magic settings. All magical items are potentially available.

However, items (with special exceptions) remain unattunable until reaching the requisite tier.

Tier: Rarity of Item Available
1-4 Student: Common
5-8 Professional: Uncommon
9-12 Master: Rare
13-16 Champion: Very Rare
17-20 Legend: Legendary

Magic items cannot be bought or sold. But players can make magic items using the relevant Tool proficiency. Depending on the nature of the item, this might require a "ritual" involving special circumstances or ingredients.

By definition, a magical item requires attunement. Some attunement is easier than others. Generally, to attune with a magic item, one must attune with the intention of the mind of the person who created that item.

This attunement is why magic items cannot be bought or sold. The items are magical but only function for certain individuals. In a way, the item must choose the user.

hopeless

Adventurer

I would figure potions would be available depending on the type and region its brewed within.
I can see churches wanting their own source of healing potions, but out in the villages and hamlets there should be a herbalist available.
As for other common and uncommon magical items most should have been scavenged from ruins and perhaps former heirlooms sold to maintain their former owner's finances or perhaps as rewards posted by the settlement for some quest.
The larger the settlement the more of a chance certain items might be available after all a noted smith or armorer might be able to craft a basic enchanted weapon or armour but it would still be very rare and often spoken of in legend or urban myth so shouldn't be taken as fact.
A Mage's Guild or Wizard's Tower should have ready access to arcane scrolls though they'd be more likely to pay for rare tomes, spell books and grimoires found by adventurer's than sell such items.
Doesn't mean they won't offer a reward for some task they want completed after all.

As for actual magic shops I'd expect if one exists it would be the largest of cities to thus explain its existence as their crafting would need to be sold somewhere and an actual shop or mall where these can be bought, sold or ordered would be much more likely if we're talking about a metropolis home to a large wizard's guild, multiple churches or an adventurer's guild.
Which doesn't even cover wealthy merchants or nobles with the means to pay for these items.

Clearly, the basics of buying and selling magic items in D&D 5e is something that many people feel as if the core rules could go further on.

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