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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 1436407" data-attributes="member: 413">I've already told him that.  I explained to him that a) Magic items are a resource I put into the game for the PCs to use.  Destroying resources will impact the ablity of the party to overcome obstacles.  And B) there's never been any directive from his god to destroy magic willy nilly.  But if he wants to and the rest of the party won't stop him, then so be it.   A little perspective on his RP reasoning:  He is a barbarian (not the class...his people are uncivilized).  The people of the Seven Nations are worshippers of nature spirits.  Their spiritual leaders tend to be Druids and Sorcerers.  As often as not, these "spirits" are actually demonic beings who try to bend the Seven Nations to their will.  The civilized peoples tend to see these spirit worshippers as demon worshippers (because sometimes it is true).  This character converted to the worship of a civilized god in order to survive a plague.  So from this player's POV, magic items created by the barbarians have potentially been created by demon worshipping shaman and have infernal magic as the source of their power.  I'm completely fine with that POV (even if it isn't necessarily true in the game world).   In the specific case of when he destroyed a magic item, it was a suit of +1 Scale Mail that the party had looted from a barbarian warrior they had defeated.  The ftr/clr decided that it was likely created by a barbarian shaman and therefore it was possibly demonic.  I pointed out to him that more than likely it was stolen or purchased from more civilized people because the barbarians lack the technology to make decent metal armors.  He destroyed it anyway.  Maybe he is just playing that average Wisdom out...a character with an 11 wisdom might have difficulty thinking critically.It's just a difference in styles.  We've been gaming together for well over 15 years now...so it isn't like we can't work around it...we always have.  I can list several more "differences we have:  For example, when he DMs, an Important NPC like a general or king is likely to be a "zero-level" character (he has maintained a few AD&D concepts like that) where in my game, NPC level is determined by his importance in the world...so the leader of a goblin warclan with 40+ members is a 6th level character.  He'd probably just make him a charasmatic normal goblin and surround him with tough minions.  In one of the games he DM'd at 2nd level we assassinated an emperor...in my game that emperor would have been a 15th level aristocrat or something.  Again...just a difference in styles.</blockquote>

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