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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garnfellow" data-source="post: 3394126" data-attributes="member: 1223">Rather than have these innate bonuses come from class levels, maybe a slightly better way to enact this concept would be to have the big six all act fundamentally as bonded/leveled/growth items: items that grow in power along with the characters. The more time spent with the item and the more powerful the character, the more and mightier powers are unlocked. A key piece would be to make the investment non-transferable: the sword might be +5 in the hands of the fighter who inherited it from his father and wielded it for the last 10 years of game time, but it's only worth +1 to the brigands who stole it last week.This idea was really popularized in Earthdawn, and has been tried several times in 3e (Weapons of Legacy, Swords of Our Fathers, etc.) but (IMHO) never successfully. My biggest problem with all implementations I've seen -- be it feats, prestige classes, or raw XP costs -- was that they were just too expensive to be really enticing for a player. My players cleaned out the WotC revision of White Plume Mountain, and none of them had any interest in keeping any of the legacy weapons.Making the big six all bonded items might solve a LOT of problems, actually. Take hong's problems with NPCs loaded with too much magic gear. That conundrum largely goes away if his stuff is all bounded, and thus worth far less to the PCs than to the NPC.</blockquote>