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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9738143" data-attributes="member: 6790260">You aren't really making your case here. Like...you're now telling me "oh, it could happen in a flash, but it's much more likely to take even longer than you're describing." That's not better for your argument. It's worse. It's literally conceding that your allegedly reasonable position has a very high likelihood of being even worse than I described!Okay. You need to know that people will respond not just negatively, but very negatively, to a design predicated on this happening frequently. People will simply choose not to play D&D, rather than put up with something like this. It's a non-starter from the jump.All I can say is, I don't think that would fly either. As noted, I've never once had a GM I would consider notably generous with magic items, whereas those who were extremely stingy with them have been commonplace--and that is reflected in, prior to this thread, essentially every self-report I've ever heard from anyone else.So you'd be actively trying to change both player psychology AND that of GMs, at the same time. Even doing one of those things would be a profoundly difficult thing to achieve. Doing both? You're going to be having GMs actively fighting you the whole way even if you do in fact make the rules do this. Because those GMs will simply ignore the item generosity, but include the item destruction. So it becomes "extremely rarely find, extremely frequently lose", rather than easy-come, easy-go. Players will hate that, and GMs won't see any motivation to change--you'll have made the situation the worst of both worlds.</blockquote>

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