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Heh... well, we'll see soon enough if they do or not. However, deliberately creating a problem by putting in more wealth than you will allow the PCs to spend, one might also construe as "Bad DMing". ;) I think WotC will have the guidelines in to try and avoid the argument altogether (PCs...

:lol: Then all you have is a bunch of players all grumbling about why their PCs can't buy what they can afford due to nothing more than an arbitrary limitation. With purchasable magic items, I'm all but certain they'll have those wealth guideliness in. With the exception of rings, there doesn't...

From the Des & Dev article... "Fourth Edition D&D improves that useful tool by explicitly linking a magic item's level to its price. For example, all 9th-level magic items now cost the same number of gp to craft or to purchase." *shrug* Sounds like "Ye Olde Magic Shoppes" will be alive and...

Well you pretty much have to have an "Expected Wealth Chart" to make sure at the very least you're not giving out too much gold. Gold=Magic and it's about making sure your PCs aren't able to afford more than what they should for their level (including cash from selling off "useless" items).

While I'm big on the plussed items either, I'm glad this information will be in the DMG. Indeed. But while having a level associated with them is certainly handy to have, as I understand it (from the previous Des. & Dev. article), 4e items still have a gp cost associated with them (for buying...

The beauty of Sigil is that it is entirely self-contained, it could just as easily be floating in a nexus-(demi?)-plane all it's own. Or it might be interesting to have Sigil wander from plane to plane on a route that is tracked by Sigilian Calendar...

Like myself and a few others have already suggested - create a special economy for mid-level on up magic items. Powerful magic can only be bought with other magic. You don't like that +2 pick? Trade it in. Want to buy or comission something new? Gold can buy low level items, but higher level...

Agreed, I touched on this earlier as well. Again, my biggest beef with the change was that if gold can be spent on magic, that is all large sums will ever be spent on (by PCs). I touched on a similar line of thought in that thread as well...

Through the years we've probably tried every iteration for coin weights the various editions and Dragon articles could come up with. The lighter coins have that nice potability factor working for it, but I missed the days where the PCs would have to hire caravans to haul their treasure out of a...

I'm actually starting to go the other way, back to when coins had some meat to them (10 coins/pd.). That way a treasure chest or dragon's horde actually looked impressive, rather than a just tiny pile of dimes in a jewelry box. :lol:

I would love to see mid-tier on up magic taken out of the gold piece economy and into one of it's own. Large sums of gold then might actually see some other use in the campaign (castles, armies, mansions, servants, etc...). I like the idea of magic being bartered for with other magic (several...

Just a couple of things to consider. In 1e/2e you couldn't buy magic items so all that you could ever acquire were those (generally) appropriately leveled items you found in modules. Item creation in those days were more of a hassle than it was worth so was almost never done by the PCs...

The real kicker of course being that if money can be spent on magic items, that is all large sums of money will ever be used for. This is the reason why I've always railed against them being on the market (at least the mid-level items on up). Forget about PCs building castles, cities, armies...

You can find the Des. & Dev. article on it here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20071203 Quote: "Fourth Edition D&D improves that useful tool by explicitly linking a magic item's level to its price. For example, all 9th-level magic items now cost the same number of gp to craft or...

From what we know about magic items (which have prices in gold for purchase & creation), we can safely assume that there will be assumed wealth guidelines still in 4e. Further, with it being confirmed that there are still 'plussed' weapons & items in the game (a route I wish they hadn't...

Co-signed. I can't believe anyone would argue against WotC making every effort to make the game as un-abusable as possible.

Hopefully WotC garnered a few of those guys from the CharOp board to do nothing more than try to break the system. :lol: My guess is that if it's going to break in the core rules, it'll likely come from a multiclass combo with unforeseen synergetic abilities (eg. feat + spell from class X +...

I beg to differ. Simply by playing to the dragon's "natural" strengths you can make it a plently formidable & interesting challenge, you don't need extensive spell lists, magic items, power-up suites, etc.. Heightened senses, fast flight, great big wings to scatter foes and creating blinding...

Yeah, the ungainly stat abominations that are the HL 3e dragons have bugged me for a variety of reasons. Many of them are like wizards trapped in giant lizard bodies. Take the classic red for example - here you have a near perfectly crafted engine of rampaging destruction… and then you give it...

Another vote for Greyhawk, but I would also love to see Planescape return at some point as well. Dark Sun has interesting elements but I've always found it a bit too much a one-trick-pony setting to be in my top 2 picks. The rest I have various levels of ambivalence towards...