Recent content by Evocatas

Uh, I'm arguing they're not as common as they're statistically supposed to be. Go through any module and count out the number of +1 (or better) swords there are, and then count the intelligent ones. Again, statistically, 1 out of 4 should be unusual. If I had to hazard a reason why it's lower...

Perhaps, but even I6 assumes that the party is entering with something. 6 to 8 players with a 50% chance from table I and 30% chance from table II (dmg pg 175) still ends up with ~8 magical items in the group, on average. That said, a quick perusal of I6 makes me wanna never play it. It doesn't...

This isn't really about the magic distribution, more about the chance of intelligent swords in the campaign and how much of an issue they'll likely be. That said, "conservative" players are ones that have failed to realize that roughly half the xp a character gets during an adventure is...

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I know I'm late to the party and zombie-posting, but the breaking the outcomes down to per alignment kinda buries the lead. The table actually outputs 50% good alignments (C/L/N), 35% neutral alignments (C/L/tN) and 15% evil (C/L/N) alignments. This means that, at a minimum 40% a weapon will...