Looking at the equipment tables in the compendium, I see that their prices are listed. If you are referring to magic items, those do not have any gp value. The DMG offers rough guidelines, but these are very inexact. This thread has some links to unofficial price lists for magic items which are quite good. I believe there was a staff post that they didn't want to put magic item price values on the listing because it might be viewed as official (even though they are guidelines for DMs at best), but they were willing to possibly mark it somehow to note that the prices aren't official or binding. I can't seem to find that post for the life of me though... (EDIT: found it -- very bottom post on that page in case it doesn't scroll to it correctly)
If you weren't talking about magic items but rather regular equipment, what tables are missing prices?
Oops. Thank you. Yes magic equipment. Weird they don't want to list gp value. How else are they going to rank the items in terms of quality or value. Even though it may be a way that doesn't make sense in game for pcs, for me as a dm it would greatly allow me to easily create d20 table and know if an item fits the level /adventure rankings of the pcs I am running through an adventure. Or at least easily read a shortlist of them as the content gets bigger in the compendium.
thanks for the thread post, I'll head there and add my pov.
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How else are they going to rank the items in terms of quality or value.
By rarity. Common items are the least valuable and of the lowest quality, Uncommon are the next superior, then Rare, Very Rare, and Legendary following with Artifacts being the absolute most potent (and being priceless as a result).
If you have the DMG (and potentially once the DMG contents can be purchased here on D&D Beyond), you can also use the random treasure hoard by Challenge Rating tables and the lettered random magic item tables they reference to further sort items into a "fits the PC level" format - which is, thanks to magic items not actually being assumed in any particular quantity or frequency by the game math, a thing that is completely arbitrary to each group playing the game (i.e. it's totally fine for 3rd level characters in my campaign to have Legendary magic items, even if some other DM would find that to be over-powered, because the optional nature of magic items means its up to each DM to do what works for their own campaign).
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are you going to add GP value in the equipment listings, e.g. So it can be used as a rough guide to show value for d20 tables, merchants, etc?
Looking at the equipment tables in the compendium, I see that their prices are listed. If you are referring to magic items, those do not have any gp value. The DMG offers rough guidelines, but these are very inexact. This thread has some links to unofficial price lists for magic items which are quite good. I believe there was a staff post that they didn't want to put magic item price values on the listing because it might be viewed as official (even though they are guidelines for DMs at best), but they were willing to possibly mark it somehow to note that the prices aren't official or binding. I can't seem to find that post for the life of me though... (EDIT: found it -- very bottom post on that page in case it doesn't scroll to it correctly)
If you weren't talking about magic items but rather regular equipment, what tables are missing prices?
Oops. Thank you. Yes magic equipment. Weird they don't want to list gp value. How else are they going to rank the items in terms of quality or value. Even though it may be a way that doesn't make sense in game for pcs, for me as a dm it would greatly allow me to easily create d20 table and know if an item fits the level /adventure rankings of the pcs I am running through an adventure. Or at least easily read a shortlist of them as the content gets bigger in the compendium.
thanks for the thread post, I'll head there and add my pov.
finding it really hard to navigate this forum. So many reposts and really bad search engine.