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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3995515" data-attributes="member: 29398">Both true, though to 1. I'd add that it also greatly reduced the random element - instead of having to rely on the chance of finding Item X for sale or trade in town, the PC can now relatively easily make her own.It's not like I as DM spend time worrying about every little item that shows up in my game and whether it'll unbalance things slightly.  It's more a philosophical thing: that NPC artificers make items, and field-adventuring PCs go out and find them instead.  And it's so *trivially* easy to fix, without any knock-on effects either...just make item creation take long enough that most PCs won't bother. (well, there's one little tiny knock-on effect: the item-creation feats would need to be replaced with something more suited to field adventuring)The ExP cost annoys me too; how is a non-adventuring artificer ever going to earn the ExP required to build anything?  I'm glad that's Going Away in 4e.Lanefan</blockquote>