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<blockquote data-quote="SilverfireSage" data-source="post: 6489149" data-attributes="member: 6778313">I only brought up the other editions because someone else mentioned 4E. I feel like we're arguing on the basis that these items are common or expected. The belt of cloud giant strength is a single number on one of the tables. Ditto for storm giant strength, fire giant strength, and frost giant strength. +3 shields are only on the second rarest table, and +3 armor is on the rarest table, and there's never a guarantee that you'll find the exact armor that you're looking for. Not to mention that even if you do find a load of items that cater exactly to your character, now none of the other people in your group have very good items, and you may not even be able to use all of them because of the attunement restrictions. I'm going to repeat this again: Phandelver was created before the monster manual, and before the DM's guide as a starter adventure for getting people into 5E. It was never meant to be the first adventure in a long running campaign, it was simply to give a taste of what was to come. This may be another one of those cases where playtesting will be the true deciding factor here, but even with allowing adventurers to bring over magic items from other editions, I haven't once in multiple sessions found them to be game breaking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SilverfireSage, post: 6489149, member: 6778313"] I only brought up the other editions because someone else mentioned 4E. I feel like we're arguing on the basis that these items are common or expected. The belt of cloud giant strength is a single number on one of the tables. Ditto for storm giant strength, fire giant strength, and frost giant strength. +3 shields are only on the second rarest table, and +3 armor is on the rarest table, and there's never a guarantee that you'll find the exact armor that you're looking for. Not to mention that even if you do find a load of items that cater exactly to your character, now none of the other people in your group have very good items, and you may not even be able to use all of them because of the attunement restrictions. I'm going to repeat this again: Phandelver was created before the monster manual, and before the DM's guide as a starter adventure for getting people into 5E. It was never meant to be the first adventure in a long running campaign, it was simply to give a taste of what was to come. This may be another one of those cases where playtesting will be the true deciding factor here, but even with allowing adventurers to bring over magic items from other editions, I haven't once in multiple sessions found them to be game breaking. [/QUOTE]

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