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<blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 6109819" data-attributes="member: 54710"><p>I think the Belt of Storm Giant Strength is a great playtest item because I'd really like to see how it playtests against other other artifact level items. (And it would be better if there were other artifacts in the packet.) Has anyone played a game where a character with a Belt of Storm Giant Strength is compared to the legendary items in the packet?</p><p></p><p>My one playtest experience with Belt of Giant Strength was with a Belt of Hill Giant Strength that (with a Rare item) gave a Wisdom-focused 11th-level cleric a ok melee attack that was still unbelievably worse than the 11th level fighter.</p><p></p><p>Yes, there are some abusive builds if you create a character that is designed to use strength as an attack stat, but have dumped strength because they are sure to get a belt of giant strength. But that's a pretty odd situation. When compared with Str 18-20 fighters, the bonuses are mostly comparable to magic weapons with a +1 to +3 bonus. Yes, they stack, but I think that's mostly a feature. If character are getting +3 magic weapons <em>and </em>belts of giant strength, than that's because the DM wants a monty haul style game and it's all to everyone's fun to push the system. If you want game balance, then use give out balanced magic items. </p><p></p><p>I only see this as a problem if the result is unexpectedly unbalanced. Has anyone seen unexpected results?</p><p></p><p>-KS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KidSnide, post: 6109819, member: 54710"] I think the Belt of Storm Giant Strength is a great playtest item because I'd really like to see how it playtests against other other artifact level items. (And it would be better if there were other artifacts in the packet.) Has anyone played a game where a character with a Belt of Storm Giant Strength is compared to the legendary items in the packet? My one playtest experience with Belt of Giant Strength was with a Belt of Hill Giant Strength that (with a Rare item) gave a Wisdom-focused 11th-level cleric a ok melee attack that was still unbelievably worse than the 11th level fighter. Yes, there are some abusive builds if you create a character that is designed to use strength as an attack stat, but have dumped strength because they are sure to get a belt of giant strength. But that's a pretty odd situation. When compared with Str 18-20 fighters, the bonuses are mostly comparable to magic weapons with a +1 to +3 bonus. Yes, they stack, but I think that's mostly a feature. If character are getting +3 magic weapons [I]and [/I]belts of giant strength, than that's because the DM wants a monty haul style game and it's all to everyone's fun to push the system. If you want game balance, then use give out balanced magic items. I only see this as a problem if the result is unexpectedly unbalanced. Has anyone seen unexpected results? -KS [/QUOTE]
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