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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 6489272" data-attributes="member: 3424">That's pretty much in line with something I concluded fairly early on. 5e seems to work best if you don't give out any magic items. Ever. I would like to correct this bit of cause and effect, though.  Everything in the world doesn't get more powerful just because you find magic items. Rather, you start to encounter more powerful monsters. If you previously encountered a CR 3 Young White Dragon, you now encounter a CR 4 Young Black Dragon. And even that is a function of your new (higher) level rather than the fact that you are now better equipped.  The apparent correlation is because both the discovery of magic items and the increasing level of challenge from the monsters encountered are driven by the same factor: increasing character levels.</blockquote>