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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 6675826" data-attributes="member: 2629">The core of the elegance is that allows flexibility while maintaining balance.  In prior editions you had a 1 item per slot rule.  That created a lot of problems that encouraged focus on a small set of items and resulted in a huge number of items being ignored.  In some editions you'd find a bunch of rings you'd never use, in others you'd have a lot in the rule set that would never be picked by players or DMs to be included.Here, due to the recommended distributions and the mechanics, magic items should be distributed and diverse.  As for why a selection of 3 attuned items per PC is not arbitrary: Math and statistics.   If you take the average number of magic items that should be found based upon recommended distributions, calculate the chances that magic items would be attuned based upon the percentage of entries on the item tables that are attuned, and spread it over 20 levels, the answer becomes obvious.  Basically, there should be about 3 attuned items found per PC in a 20 level career.  The 3 limit encourages distribution amongst the party and limits the power of PCs that find too many attuned items - especially when there are too many high power attuned items.  It prevents a party that finds too many items through luck, or a situation in which a DM allows PCs to buy items very easily, from getting too far from the balance levels that were envisioned for the game.That is the first level of analysis.  I encourage you to think about it some more on your own and look for the deeper balance issues.  I could write a few dozen pages on this - but long posts never do much good.  People tend to only learn things during message board discussions when they figure it out themselves.</blockquote>

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