My PCs are lvl 7 - in a town - magic items availabiliy

[divby0]

Hey Everyone,

I am DMing my first Campaign with Carrion Crown. My PCs are now lvl 7 and in Lepidstadt. Lepidstadt is a small prosperous town with 10k inhabitants.

Now is about the first time the PCs have some more serious cash at hand, items to sell and buy.

I was wondering if you have in your games the items available the PCs want or if you roll them out. I mean a regular +1 shield should be available everyhwere like a +2 amulet of charisma, +2 headband of intelligence, +1 ring of protection. They bought those things at the start of the adventure (lvl 4)

They are equiped with that. I was wondering now, as they are lvl 7 how I should handle magic itmes. The descriptions of lepidstadt says

Base Value 6k

Purchase Limit 32,5k

Minor items 4d4, medium and major itmes 3d4.

Should i actually roll out which items are available in the shops ahead of time? And allow a purchase limit of 32,5k?

What does the Base value mean?

How do you handle it?

Thanks
Markus

[LazarX]

My suggestion... Think about what your group should buy or might need, include a few items from that list. Include perhaps a couple of random items. And at least one item for pure amusement or flavor, like a coin that glows one of two different colors depending on what side it's resting on.

While they're progressing through one book of the AP, you should be thinking about one book ahead.

[KrispyXIV]

Also bear in mind, "When is the next time they'll have access to anywhere they can buy things?"

It might be worth cutting them a little slack if they aren't going to be able to go shopping for several levels.

[Major_Tom]

IIRC, according to RAW, a limit of 32K means that 75% of the time, items under 32K should be available for sale in the town. Your call on how many of anything, of course (I always found 1 to be a good number). Except for things like CLW wands, and potions.

The 4d4 minor and 3d4 medium and major should be rolled randomly. If you have the Magic Item Compendium, that's a good place, it has a lot of unique and even fun items. Feel free to re-roll anything that doesn't fit your campaign, of course.

[FallofCamelot]

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[FallofCamelot]

Major_Tom wrote:

IIRC, according to RAW, a limit of 32K means that 75% of the time, items under 32K should be available for sale in the town. Your call on how many of anything, of course (I always found 1 to be a good number). Except for things like CLW wands, and potions.

Actually no. The purchase limit is how expensive an item the players can sell not buy. The base value is the limit on things that the players can buy.

So in this instance anything worth 6,000gps or less can be found 75% of the time. I would say that potions and 0/1st level scrolls should be generally exempt from this in anything larger than a small town (within reason of course).

[meabolex]

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