Buying and Selling Magic Items, Herbal Ingredients, Poisons, and Other Rarities

Selling your magic items

Selling your magic items and poisons can be done either during sessions or during Downtime activities like selling herbs can be. However, finished products are looked for by potential customers far more often than just the ingredients. This is mostly due to the lack of ability to craft such items for most NPCs.

The pricing for all magic items is in the charts below, or if you made the item then it is double the total cost of all components. However, these are just base pricing, and the charts below go off of the base pricing. The player always has the opportunity to price these items themselves, and the DM can respond at their discretion.

You can expect to sell up to half of your magic wares to potential buyers in most cities and towns, and only a small amount to villages. This of course depends on how much money you are willing to sacrifice. However, the more damage, healing, or power a concoction provides, the less often a buyer will be available.

When selling your magic items to a potential buyer, the player will need to perform a DC 15 Charisma check to find potential buyers of their products. Just like with other skill checks, other player in the party can assist, granting the original player advantage on this roll.

On a failure, no buyer can be found for that item type until the player tries again after a long rest and makes another attempt.

On a success, the player is able to find a nearby buyer immediately, or if during Downtime, it takes a number of days as per the chart below. Remember, that the more rare the item is, the harder it will be to sell.

Sale Price Modifier

Offered Sale Price

Magic Item and Poison Values

Herbalism ingredient values are listed in the herbalism tables.

• Consumables are items that are used some set amount of times (usually once) and then are gone.
• Combat Items are items that primarily make the user better at killing things. Some also have other killing-unrelated effects, but these are not the primary source of their utility.
• Noncombat Items are items that primarily make the user better at solving problems in a killing-unrelated manner. Some also make the user better at killing things, but this is not the primary source of their utility.
• Summoning Items are items that summon creatures to kill things or solve problems for you.
• Gamechanging Items are items that can have major effects on the way the players engage with the world or that can resculpt the campaign world in some major way all on their own. They are not necessarily overpowered, but the GM should take a look at them to make sure that the items they allow are compatible with the sort of game and world they want to create.

Consumables represent all items that can be used up when used in their intended manner. By default, consumables are somewhere around one tenth the price of an equivalent permanent item. The scroll prices below represent a typical scroll of that level. Scrolls with significant direct value, such as scrolls of fabricate or wish, may be priced differently.

Combat items are primarily good for killing things. A few have other uses as well, like the luckstone or the Ioun Stone Mastery, but their biggest effect is making their owner better at killing or not getting killed. Increase the price of these items if you want your players mostly getting oddball magic items that don't interact much at all with combat.

All items which are weapons or armor add the cost of the base weapon or armor that makes them up to their price.

Noncomat items give some sort of problem-solving ability not directly related to combat. Some, like the Eversmoking Bottle and the Boots of Levitation are also useful in combat, but that isn't where the bulk of their utility comes from. Increase the price of these items if you'd rather have your players resort to combat more predictably instead of coming up with complicated schemes that avoid direct fighting.