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Is the Purchase Limit listed for the settlements the maximum amount that town will buy total? Or is that the maximum amount total for each item? And how does that work when items are sold at 1/2 market value?
Example: Large Town has purchase limit of 10,000 gp. Party has acquired 5 bags of holding (type 4). These bags have a market price 10,000 gp. How many will the party be able to sell? 1, 2, or all 5?
Example 2: Same Large Town... now the party has 3 belts of giant strength (+4) with a market value of 16,000 gp. Is the party able to sell one of these in the Large Town since they will only get 8,000 gp for it? Will they be able to sell all 3?
At what point with the town become "saturated" by the surplus of items being sold by the party?
So, so, so confused by this.
While these are extremes, I do have a party in my campaign that has acquired a large number of magic items (in excess of 75,000 gp in all market value) and will be traveling through a Small and Large Town to sell these items.
Thanks!
Here you find everything you need to know about the settlement stat block.
The Purchase Limit entry lists how much someone in the city can spend on a single item. So if your PCs are trying to sell a bag of holding for example, they need to be in a settlement with a purchase limit of 5000 gp (i.e. the selling price).
Now there is nothing in the rules that states how often they can do so in any given settlement.
So it falls to you as the GM to find a reasonable number.
If they are selling several items like the bag of holding, the belt of giant strenght, and a magic weapon it might be reasonable to say they will find one buyer for each item in a different shop (as they would also be bought in different shops, most likely). Several items of the same kind I would treat as a single item with regards to the purchase limit, as there is probably only one buyer.
All in all you don't need to worry about unbalancing the game as long as you went by the WBL chart when handing out treasure in the first place.