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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6692573" data-attributes="member: 94389">For me, w.r.t. 5E, I look at magic as a "cool! new Shiney!" and not as a way for PCs to gain interesting, unique, (or necessary) power(s). If Its cool, and makes for a better story, drop it in. A +1 sword isn't going to change the game, and while boring as hell, you can litter the game with them if you want. Personally, the personalization table  (at work, too lazy to look up etc) in the DMG is great. More that, less +X stuff. The Sword of Kings is way more interesting, even if its just a +1 sword. Even better, its the sword of the Forest Gnome King, and he who wields it is King of the Gnomes! And must produce an heir with the Gnome Queen (a matronly line seperate from the patronly line of sword wielders). Use it all you want, but gnomes everywhere will pester you to get back to the queen...Also, go "techy". Take real-world items that are essentially "mundane" to us, and make it into a magic item: Little Blue Bird Statuettes that let you send 140 character messages to anyone else with a little birdie...that sort of thing.</blockquote>