Basic Trope: Shopkeepers have powerful weapons and armor for sale at obscene prices early in the game.
- Straight: The shopkeeper in the second town sells a Disc-One Nuke for 100,000 gold.
- Exaggerated:
- The shopkeeper is selling the Infinity +1 Sword
- The weapon costs 100,000,000 gold instead.
- Downplayed:
- The weapon costs 1,000 gold, and normal weapons at that point cost in the 300 range.
- The weapon is only marginally better than normal weapons at this point.
- Justified:
- The first town is a large metropolis, so there are powerful weapons for sale.
- Item Crafting is expensive, especially for powerful items.
- Inverted:
- The Disc-One Nuke only costs 2 gold.
- There is a weapon being sold for 100,000 gold. It's made of solid gold, and is utterly useless as a weapon.
- Subverted:
- The weapon normally costs 100,000 gold, but it's on sale for 1,000.
- You very quickly achieve 100,000 gold in the early game, as the number of gold increases very quickly.
- Double Subverted:
- It's on sale for 1,000 gold, but it's so absurdly sharp that it shatters on contact, making it useless as a weapon.
- But after buying that item, the shopkeeper sells another item for 1 trillion gold.
- Parodied: The cost of the item is higher than the player's money cap; it can never be bought, although it might be possible to get one as a random drop or by "borrowing" one.
- Zig-Zagged: The shop sells items of a wide variety of prices and power levels. Prices differ wildly, and not proportionally to each other either.
- Averted: The shopkeeper only sells items at the level you would expect.
- Enforced:
- The developers want to make the game realistic, so the major city does in fact sell powerful weapons and armor.
- The developers want to give a reward for players willing to Level Grind.
- Lampshaded: "And he expects we can afford that price?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The shop has these weapons, but refuses to sell them at any price.
- Discussed: The protagonist remarks that the common shopkeeper is selling a ridiculously powerful weapon.
- Conversed: ???
We'd offer a link back to Teaser Equipment, but that'll cost a million gold!
