I find it mildly annoying when playing a Rage Mage, since you can only learn one spell per book, so you end up buying a *lot* of copies of the starting two books. It's really annoying when you get enough money to buy a couple more spell books, only to find the shop doesn't have any.
Now, it can be mitigated by teleporting to one of the other towns through the inn, and they usually have what I want, so it's not a *big* deal.
It also means that I end up with a pretty large stockpile of CSW and CCW potions, since I always snatch all those up if I can afford them, precisely because they're not guaranteed to be there.
I generally agree that it adds a slight amount of tedium to the game, and doesn't really contribute anything.
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