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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4059311" data-attributes="member: 4937">We play and want to play in such different games that there is probably no possibility but that we'll talk right past each other.If I set down as a player, I'm going to keep track of my ammunition and rations both because I'll assume its expected of me and because I want to.&nbsp; If I knew that there was this unspoken understanding that I had unlimited ammunition and rations, it would harm my enjoyment of the game.That's what you had to do.&nbsp; For one shots, I've even encouraged that sort of thing myself.&nbsp; But that's far from the only or even best way to handle things.In earlier editions of the games, there were various techniques for randomly generating magic items if you needed them.&nbsp; For example, 'Appendix P' of the 1st edition DMG.&nbsp; The implications of that method is that +2 magic items are rare before 10th level!&nbsp; When my DM ran us on 'Tomb of Horrors' as a one shot, he rolled up a bunch of random magic items while we were making characters and said, &quot;Distribute this among yourselves.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4059311, member: 4937"] We play and want to play in such different games that there is probably no possibility but that we'll talk right past each other. If I set down as a player, I'm going to keep track of my ammunition and rations both because I'll assume its expected of me and because I want to. If I knew that there was this unspoken understanding that I had unlimited ammunition and rations, it would harm my enjoyment of the game. That's what [i]you[/i] had to do. For one shots, I've even encouraged that sort of thing myself. But that's far from the only or even best way to handle things. In earlier editions of the games, there were various techniques for randomly generating magic items if you needed them. For example, 'Appendix P' of the 1st edition DMG. The implications of that method is that +2 magic items are rare before 10th level! When my DM ran us on 'Tomb of Horrors' as a one shot, he rolled up a bunch of random magic items while we were making characters and said, "Distribute this among yourselves." [/QUOTE]

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