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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6307202" data-attributes="member: 22424">Agreed... sort of. I'm not really a fan of having the game rules try to model a consistent "fictional reality", so things like that (and the classic "why don't elves rule the world?") are arguments I'd rather just sidestep.But you're right - if that is how the universe works, then such things would just accumulate.In principle, I was a fan of the "Unearthed Arcana" variant where casters had a "Crafting Reserve" that was instead the limit on items they could craft. Of course, like the rest of UA that's even less playtested than the item creation rules generally, so...(All that said, if I were given the mandate to 'fix' 3e, and also given carte blanche to do that, I'd actually do a complete rewrite of item creation from the ground up. I don't think any trivial fix really gets to the heart of the issue. I also don't think the (original 3.0e) designers really envisaged the item creation (or purchase) rules being used in anything like the way they are being used - I suspect they expected virutally all items in the game to be 'found' items. Which explains some of the odder decisions in the game, such as the MM monsters being 'balanced' assuming PCs wouldn't have access to "big six" items when of course those would be the items players would make sure their characters have!)</blockquote>