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When it came to stuff they didn't buy? Yes, I always added it. When it came to mook stuff, I tended to implicate it had been bought, such as them finding a symbol of a magic shop they frequented, or something else (such as "This armor belongs to Bob, enchanted by Stella"-type inscriptions) that...

Except it also didn't happen as of the end of the Sundering novels. Every single change or event it brought about has been undone in some way. It may still technically be history, but given that even the last areas of spellplague have been erased in the novels and the fact that WotC is...

It may be. Which is part of why I always added descriptions to the stuff they found and gave them backstories. Bracers of natural armor? Boring. Magical Bracers of the Last Druid Knight of the Emerald Knight Guild? Players start asking questions, start looking up lore, start being a lot more...

It makes sense if you consider the system is designed with the idea players don't sell magic items in the first place and that the optional selling rules in the DMG essentially penalize players by giving them what amount to paltry sums for a lot of the magic items they are likely to be trying to...

I'm a fan of Grimtooth. Rogues are so very, very much needed. After the first time you've been in a room that sealed, filled halfway with water, and then started constantly applying reverse gravity effects to itself... you keep a rogue along to deal with traps.

It was, only it was done in-universe through the Sundering. Which, basically, reversed FR back to pre-4E days in a lot of areas while still moving time forward. It's something that some writers do when they need to keep a sense of continuity, but happen to need to retcon something out of the...

This was retconned out of FR. It's primarily something you'll only have to care about in relation to 5E if you play the MMO Neverwinter (which still uses 4E rules and the 4E version of FR).

Eberron, in their history, just came out of a continent-wide conflict in which magic was used to such a degree that sentient golems were thrown at each other in massive quantities. One nation even deployed massive armies of undead. That's why Eberron has so few high-level spellcasters; most of...

What about a giant demon spider that wields a vorpal blade?

The edition that didn't include any item selling rules in the core three books at all. You really can't make any less effort than no effort at all. That is not to say that 5E's system is necessarily better. I'm currently trying to figure out how it would work with Eberron. And the more I look...

Which was a mistake on my part.

Eberron is a world where magic items are, in effect, almost made on assembly lines. They have magic trains, even. It's not uncommon for Everburning Torches to be at the top of street lamps. It's pretty much a DnD world where magic is very common place and magic items see a lot of mundane...

I've been focused on player mentality since this post. I never argued that one option is truly superior to the other; my initial position was treating both as roughly equal. But as you'll note my wording, I indirectly acknowledge that the double-dragon is still a bit of a disadvantage. I...

Why shouldn't they take the option that you admit is mechanically equal but thematically better for them? Some people perceive it as a savings.

Is now a bad time to point out the expanded material and the fact gnomes are a dwarf subrace?

I will say what I am about to say is probably not going to match what a lot of people would agree with on how to play it. This is just my personal preference as a DM, though. I think it depends on character concept and roleplaying both what the miracle is and if they they can do it. If the...

Healing, tanking, spellcasting, and possibly even skill monkeying for everyone!

Why should they take it? Seriously, that's the key issue: They've already made their decision, even if it puts them at a bit of a disadvantage. Why should they take a build that doesn't go along with that decision? Except I'm not talking about mechanics. I made my mechanics post on page 1...

Ideal: Paladin Cleric Sorcerer/Wizard Arcane Trickster Rogue

The fact doesn't bother me. I posted what I had to say on page one, let Joe Liker make his decision, and walked away from the thread. As far as I was concerned, it was done. The argument started on page 2.