Visions of Lives Past

You always resell items for 1/10 of their listed price. That said, magical items are VERY valuable, so you can still get quite a bit of coin if you are selling them.
I know that things sell for 1/10. I’m confused by the words resell value. Is that what I would get for selling it or it that it’s whole worth?

There are circumstances that come up in which a given item has no seriously interested people.
I think that happened, with one, maybe two things at the table of Visions I played.
It was a while, my memory’s fuzzy.

Of course with so little magic items to actually buy there is also not the magical arms race thast there was in DnD which means having lots of cash isn’t such an issue.

…snip… However, if we notice that people are taking magic items just to sell them, instead of giving them to Heroes who would actually use and appreciate them… There will be consequences, both IC (other Heroes aren’t likely to travel with you if they know you’re just going to hawk the stuff they could use) and OOC (players aren’t going to want to play with you, and we’re going to stop putting cool things in again. Or give everything a catch. Or simply make magic items unsellable. Which is tempting as is…).

Played this at Arcaniscon. Was a great mod. We chose to destroy the key rather than let people into the Tower of Gettalus. Xercel was not best pleased …

On the issue of treasure and selling …

I’m pretty sure we’ve all had a negative experience at a table or two where there was a player(s) who argued till blue in the face for something … and then cashed out. Even though someone else could have used it. Yeah I don’t want to see a lot of that.

At the same time, there are a lot of adventures and few items. And the items that do show up tend to be quirky. Neither of my PCs were excited in a different mod about having a skeleton come out the back of their cloak despite the cool in game benefits. Could have felt differently if one of them was a val’Mordane, but weird death stuff is not really up the alley of my Altherian or my Nierite. Does that mean they had to “pass” in that instance? I’d say no. If there is no “creepy death guy” in the party selling such item an seems like a good option to me.

As a final note I am surprised about the costs that were chosen for the items at the end of the mod. Especially the staff (really?) I personally would not spend 20 gold to buy such an item if it were made available at “ye old magic shoppe.” Such high prices for a (charged) item invite someone selling it to go and buy 4 runes …

The items are definitely interesting and very appropriate to a Ss’ressen table, naturally. BEAST I expect will have a field day with this one if they haven’t already. They are things that you could build a character concept around, depending on the character. Of the ones in the list, I’m not sure what I’ll end up picking. Neither a Huge character nor a Ss’ressen were on my list of characters to play, given limited playing time.

The Armlet of Vigilance is cool. My only hangup with it for my primary is that he’s a devout follower of the Pantheon of Man. Wearing the holy symbol of a foreign god? Not cool. Could work for a secondary character.

As has been mentioned, there is no Ye Olde Magic Shoppe here. Everything that can be bought and used at current play levels – even runed exceptional weapons – has some, but limited impact on play. It’s enough for exceptional light armor, but still has quite a ways to go to get you to exceptional medium and certainly not heavy. Certainly not a requirement at T1 or T2 and more likely to open up later. And again, not game breaking given the minimum bulk and the fact characters can start with it.

I think they serve a great purpose being flavorful, appropriate and interesting, even if a bunch of them do get sold.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul