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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 4577466" data-attributes="member: 35788">Well, to be fair ... even a system of "item influence/ability points" would still mean that items would be necessary to boost the characters to the expected norms for 3.x at any given level.  However, what I could do is essentially make the power for those items come out of the character instead of being in the item.  Thus, you wouldn't have the "Magic-mart" aspect of 3.x.Here's an example.  Brock, serious fighter from the desolate northern lands, has learned through his experience how to infuse a weapon he uses with frozen power and accuracy.  [Mechanically, let's say it is game equivalent to Brock having a +2 frost weapon]  He loves using his Masterwork Greatsword, and every time he goes into battle his sword is treated like a +2 Frost Greatsword.  However, the last battle he had was with a tribe of powerful ogres and his blade was snapped.  Among the ogre village remains Brock finds a Bastard Sword that he can use until he gets a different weapon.  Brock sits down and meditates with the weapon for an hour, and now every time Brock uses the weapon it is considered a +2 Frost Bastard Sword.Functionally, the game runs smooth and there is no mechanical difference.  From a GM perspective, there is no more treasure issue.  Players use their character level to determine how much equipment their characters can infuse and treat as "magical gear."  However, when the items are no longer in the hands of the players they are treated as mundane (or even masterwork) items.  Thus, the game always is in "balance" in terms of gear.  And yes, balance is a term that is used fairly loosely there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And ... I can make it work with existing magic weapons no problem.  So DMs could choose the variant to which I speak, or normal D&D, or both systems simultaneously if they want.  And, I think that it can be such a simple change.  I'm assuming if I wrote this up (Brainstorming here ... Complete Gear?  Completely Equipped?) and convinced the good folks at DSP to produce it as a Complete Control Expansion that you would buy it?  [Especially if it can be done as simply as I think and it therefore would likely cost less than Complete Control]DISCLAIMER: I am not an official representative of DSP and cannot vouch for neither production nor pricing.  My statements above should not in any way be taken as a promise or anything other than simple brainstorming.  In that respect, I am interested in sensing interest so that when suggesting a work to the good folks at DSP I can relay a sense of interest inspiring the work.</blockquote>

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