#DMG 5E GOVERNMENTS HOW TO#

Nobles would be offering to trade the privilege to marry one of their daughters in exchange for a magic sword. People should be envious and jealous over his magical sword. A retiring adventurer should have people constantly begging him to sell his magic sword to them. Somehow, for reasons that seem exceedingly paradoxical, people want D&D magical treasure not to be valued as treasure. In reality players do not care that there are not people in a setting acting like people via buying and trading magic items. It would seem that the rules would not fit the Forgotten Realms setting. It is my goal to have rules that are internally consistent with the setting.

#DMG 5E GOVERNMENTS HOW TO#

However due to being beaten stupid into a post-apocalyptic dark age no one has figured out how to profit from the magical item trade. Magical items may be recovered in the ruins. Coins made of precious metals may be recovered in the ruins. Apex predators roam ruins, and are not kept in check by civilization. Ruins are sporadically scattered in the wild that contain riches of old lost civilizations. This seems as if would be a somewhat advanced economic concept, and it is likely a holdover from an earlier pre-apocalypse age, and many are likely from bygone civilizations. Society was once able to produce magical items, and was more advanced than it is now. Magical items are an advanced concept requiring a great deal of magical education, study, and practice. The economy must either be so primitive that people cannot figure a way to profit from magical treasure, or historic trade routes are crawling with apex predators making trade nigh impossible. Either (a) the economic concepts are lacking or (b) the trade infrastructure to make a profitable magical item trade must be lacking. For magical items not to have an economic impact, at all, is quite telling. An economy not involving magic treasure where there exists such a thing as magical treasure is quite mindboggling. Magical treasure screams valuable and wanted. No one is offering bounties on magical treasure.

There are no groups of people recovering old magical items to sell. There are no individuals, or groups of wizards creating magical items for profit. No agents, no collectors, no auction houses, and no shops. There is a lack of infrastructure to create, distribute, trade, buy or sell magical treasure. Education, economics, technology, and society have regressed. Trade routes are likely primitive, dangerous, filled with monsters, and filled with bandits of various races. Society must be crumbling, and people must be beaten stupid into a post-apocalyptic dark age. It would seem that the default 5e D&D rules (especially the lack of economic rules) suggest a setting that is relatively primitive and post-apocalyptic compared to how it once was. 5e D&D economics = people must have been beaten stupid into a post-apocalyptic dark age

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