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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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 Posted - 28 Jan 2005 : 23:38:07
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In your FR campaigns where are magic items sold and what do you allow your players to buy and how much of it?
Anyone created any hard and fast rules for this?
How many potions of cure Light wounds can a temple sell with out running out of stock etc
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Kentinal
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Posted - 28 Jan 2005 : 23:47:35
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Originally posted by Dargoth
In your FR campaigns where are magic items sold and what do you allow your players to buy and how much of it?
Anyone created any hard and fast rules for this?
How many potions of cure Light wounds can a temple sell with out running out of stock etc
Never ran into this problem. I always infered that potions were genersted as a matter of course of devotions. That is at leat one out of three clerics in a temple would make one, that a store would be built up of them. The same for scrollls of healing.
A hard and fast rule, I will offer this. Each temple has avaibable potions four times the members in temple it has scrolls three times the number of members. Now being given a potion or scroll, oe even being allowed to purchase one is situational determined. |
Edited by - Kentinal on 30 Jan 2005 17:59:57 |
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warlockco
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 29 Jan 2005 : 00:46:35
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As long as a item isn't a powerful item or excessive quanities, I tend to be fast and free with PCs purchasing magic items.
Plus, a good number of my campaigns have the PCs based from a location that has a good market for such items.
My Drow campaign is based out of Menzoberranzan, so as long as they are looking for a "common" (as determined by me) item, it will either be available via their house, the city market, or a trip to Mantol-Derith (sp?).
My other FR campaign, the PCs are fosterlings of a Mage-Priestess, who has a portal to Sigil within her keep.
My Rokugan OA campaign, is where the PCs have to really try and find magic items. Healing potions are "common" via the temples, but other items is harder to say, especially since no one has tried to find magic items to purchase yet (party is only 3rd level). |
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tauster
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 29 Jan 2005 : 10:39:56
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Originally posted by Dargoth
In your FR campaigns where are magic items sold and what do you allow your players to buy and how much of it?
in one campaign i dm my players regularly visit "kolat´s magical emporyum", a shop that sells mostly spell components and arcane paraphernalia, but also some potions and, rarely, things like keogtoms oinment. his healing potions cost sometimes more than double their "list price" (of course that´s out-of-charakter-knowledge, so my players grudgingly buy them  ) and most of the other magic itmes are overpriced too. kolat is a merchant from zakhara (sp?), so my players wonder what in beshabas name he does in tilverton (pre destruction). several clues indicate that he has contacts among zhentil keep, which adds to the wariness and distrust of my players.
he is fat, sweats constantly (and tries to cover it with heavy perfume), speaks with a painfully highpitched, squeaky voice, is a natural born haggler and a royal pain in the a**.
in short: fun to play! 
...and to cut a long story short: buying and selling items is something done on an individual basis. things like magic shops are either sham or work only on small scale ("buy a dozen potions of superhealing???  sure my friend..."  )
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Anyone created any hard and fast rules for this?
no hard&fast rules. it all depends on what my players want to get, how hard they try, whether or not i think they should pay dearly for it and whether or not it furthers the story. magic item "trade" is a great tool to regulate your players wealth and always an "instant story hook".
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How many potions of cure Light wounds can a temple sell with out running out of stock etc
i believe there was a writeup of a temple in either cormyr or (more likely) the dalelands where there was mentioned how many healing potions they would sell to any given visitor. i think it was somewhere in volos guide to the dalelands, perhaps the abbey of the sword in battledale? (idhtbifom)
your question was about the size of a temple´s inventory stock of healing potions, but i think that´s only one factor among many. my answer would be "it depends":
- on the size of the temple (more priests available means they need less potions, at least under normal cirumstances)
- where the temple is situated (in a large city like arabel or somewhere in the wilderness)
- what god the temple belongs to (lathander temples tend to have more healing potions than temples of shar)
- how the pc´s behave themselve
- whether or not the pc´s can accredit that it is in the best interest of the temple to support them (by selling potions)
- whether or not other recent visitors bought the last potions
- etc...
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
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Posted - 29 Jan 2005 : 16:21:08
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Originally posted by tauster
i believe there was a writeup of a temple in either cormyr or (more likely) the dalelands where there was mentioned how many healing potions they would sell to any given visitor. i think it was somewhere in volos guide to the dalelands, perhaps the abbey of the sword in battledale? (idhtbifom)
I checked pages 42-44 detailing the abbey in the tome. I saw no mention of any limits on healing potions being sold. It only mentioned on the bottom of page 43 about the abbey being "generous" with healing spells and potions to certain individuals.
Anyone else read different? It's pre-coffee minutes for this scribe and I might have missed something. |
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tauster
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 30 Jan 2005 : 10:08:32
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I checked both volos guide to the dalelands and to cormyr several times and can´t find the statement, so I think i´ve only surmised it. sorry for leading you on the wrong track!
[muttering]...it MUST be somewhere in those books, just have to find it...[/muttering]  |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Jan 2005 : 17:38:54
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Originally posted by tauster
I checked both volos guide to the dalelands and to cormyr several times and can´t find the statement, so I think i´ve only surmised it. sorry for leading you on the wrong track!
No need for an apology. Your statement about limits sounds familiar to this scribe as well. However, I also can't place a source for it. |
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Kentinal
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Posted - 30 Jan 2005 : 18:02:14
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| It seems to me, that at times supplies were low, perhaps a time of war or diease. |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Jan 2005 : 16:28:04
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Potions don't tend to be too hard to come by if they're things like minor healing, neutralise poison etc. Others depend more on the deity served at the temple. A temple of Talona, for example is most unlikely to be handing out neutralise poison.
As for magic shops, they don't really exist outside of major cities. Only Waterdeep and Silverymoon that my players have been to have had places where they could actually buy magical items, but no songle place has very much on offer. I have no real hard and fast rules for this but I don't see that anywhere small has the capacity to sell magic items and even those shops that do sell them focus more on trinkets, artefacts and other treasures, for example. |
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