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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9316886" data-attributes="member: 20323">My favorite method is to still include lots of magic items, but to customize them to be of a much reduced scope, reduced power, and/or single-use. This means I home brew a lot of the items.For example, say an AD&amp;D adventure about disrupting evil wizard's hold over ogre tribe has a treasure horde with a +1 ranseur and a +1 battle axe. Instead, I'd look over the adventure holistically, then in 5e I might make make the ranseur have a command word that causes it to brace for a charge dealing extra damage if used as reaction vs. charging creature.And maybe the longsword must be &quot;fed&quot; specific gemstones which grant it its magical powers for brief one-minute windows, whereafter it resumes just being a pretty longsword.If you get hung up on the &quot;but it's still magic weapon, so this is circumventing resistance to non-magical weapon damage??&quot;, then just make it a design feature of a Dwarven Ranseur of Valegarde or whatever, rather than a magical property. (Or do what I do and rewrite resistances altogether)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 9316886, member: 20323"] My favorite method is to still include lots of magic items, but to customize them to be of a much reduced scope, reduced power, and/or single-use. This means I home brew a lot of the items. For example, say an AD&D adventure about disrupting evil wizard's hold over ogre tribe has a treasure horde with a +1 ranseur and a +1 battle axe. Instead, I'd look over the adventure holistically, then in 5e I might make make the ranseur have a command word that causes it to brace for a charge dealing extra damage if used as reaction vs. charging creature. And maybe the longsword must be "fed" specific gemstones which grant it its magical powers for brief one-minute windows, whereafter it resumes just being a pretty longsword. If you get hung up on the "but it's still magic weapon, so this is circumventing resistance to non-magical weapon damage??", then just make it a design feature of a Dwarven Ranseur of Valegarde or whatever, rather than a magical property. (Or do what I do and rewrite resistances altogether) [/QUOTE]

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