Re: Campaign pacing

On Mar 31, 8:20 am, mkkuh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mary K.
Kuhner) wrote:
> In article <p4ir03phvbphsjb0hm7moegrrmfp4dd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Erol K. Bayburt  <Ero...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >Mileage varies. Having a selection of interesting items available that
> >day at the magic marketplace (but not necessarily just what you want)
> >isn't something I find any worse than finding items on a defeated
> >enemy/in a defeated foe's hoard. Having *all* the items in the DMG
> >being "in stock" does cloy, but that's an extreme case.
>
> I guess neither Jon nor I is very patient with making up magic-shop
> inventories.  It seems harder than making up treasure hoards, because
> with treasure you can think "This is stuff the person would have
> wanted".  And once the group gets into the mindset of "The small
> stuff is freely available for money" they tend to resent it if the
> GM suddenly says "Well, no potions of fire resistance are available
> today."  So we have tended to go with "everything in stock" up to
> the town's GP limit.

Hmm, I've typically gone with NOTHING is in stock, but a local broker
or manufacturer can make/get pretty much anything within the GP limit
within a time-period comparable to the manufacture time.

Do you seriously think a large city has X hundred extra copies of
EVERY weapon in the PHB + every Splat book sitting in a warehouse
somewhere + Y masterwork copies? Then add the exotic sadles for every
possible mount and all the other crap in the books?

The GP limit is what the locals can get or manufacture reasonably
quickly, and almost EVERYTHING that isn't excessively durable is being
custom made AFTER you order it. This is part of slowing things down,
you have to wait for stuff to get made.

DougL