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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 6481500" data-attributes="member: 6752135">We're already using magic item creation in my other games, too; the Forge of Spellls doesn't actually reduce the cost at all (and Gundren certainly can't and won't give them all the stuff for free), just makes it so that the entry requirements are somewhat less and speeds it up a little bit (really, it is a little bit--it still takes quite some time to make the good stuff). If the PCs really don't want to go adventuring, Gundren will be pissed off and send the shipment off with just some dwarven guards--who will, of course, be taken by the drow and tortured for information; Gundren will blame them, and tell them to go rescue the dwarves. If they do, they'll find some drow torturing the survivors and sacrificing the others to Ghaunadaur. Eventually, if the group just hides, the drow will come up through the mine itself and attempt to take it again through main force, rather than subterfuge (well, as unsubtle as drow can get, anyway). Through the playtesting I've done in planning my campaign, unless you really are crazy with the custom magic items, it doesn't unbalance anything, it just becomes a caricature of a game at that point (in the playtesting, I had my wife make an entire party with an unlimited budget and had her fight Tiamat; it was hilarious how little effect magic items made against her; the unlimited budget--no custom stuff, of course--made the fight last a lot longer, but eventually she ran out of charges for her items, and the fight began in earnest; she barely won after three out of five party members dropped--one insta-killed). The magic items really favor the careful and considerate users, rather than the spammers--exactly as it should, and as described in the FR novels.</blockquote>

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