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<blockquote data-quote="malraux" data-source="post: 4586305" data-attributes="member: 24352"><p>As a player who learned the game in 3e, I've always viewed the wealth system and magic item economy as really just an XP system for your gear. And really, if the system assumes that at certain levels you will have items with certain bonuses, it is an XP system.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think 4e is a big improvement over 3e because they've dropped the +X items for items with pluses and interesting powers and reduced the incentives to drop the interesting but unusual items for a ring of natural armor.</p><p></p><p>I also think that 4e has specifically left design space open for the crazy items with unusual drawbacks by the way of artifacts. Artifacts are now the category of intelligent items, items that give bonuses and penalties, items with unknown powers, items with interesting histories etc. And in opposition to 3e where most artifacts were really just items that would cost way too much to create by the rules, 4e artifacts are reasonably easily designed for low level characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="malraux, post: 4586305, member: 24352"] As a player who learned the game in 3e, I've always viewed the wealth system and magic item economy as really just an XP system for your gear. And really, if the system assumes that at certain levels you will have items with certain bonuses, it is an XP system. That said, I think 4e is a big improvement over 3e because they've dropped the +X items for items with pluses and interesting powers and reduced the incentives to drop the interesting but unusual items for a ring of natural armor. I also think that 4e has specifically left design space open for the crazy items with unusual drawbacks by the way of artifacts. Artifacts are now the category of intelligent items, items that give bonuses and penalties, items with unknown powers, items with interesting histories etc. And in opposition to 3e where most artifacts were really just items that would cost way too much to create by the rules, 4e artifacts are reasonably easily designed for low level characters. [/QUOTE]
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