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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8768364" data-attributes="member: 29398">You hit the key point quite early on in your post:It's the bolded bit right here; which put another way says &quot;By 3e, people (in particular, those people charged with designing the game) started over-thinking this stuff and trying to fine-tune the game's math and restrain its variables to a far-too-great degree.&quot;You then quite rightly go on to note the follow-on issues this caused around magic items and values in each edition.The other error both 3e and 4e made was to tie item pricing to a rigid formula rather than pricing each different item independently, leading to some inanely over- and under-priced items in both editions.&nbsp; The pricing in 1e and 2e wasn't perfect, but at least these was a sense that someone had tried to evaluate each item based on what it was and what it could do.Another rigidly formulaic approach, only using a different base variable (rarity); and, as you note, coming up with similarly inane results.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8768364, member: 29398"] You hit the key point quite early on in your post: It's the bolded bit right here; which put another way says "By 3e, people (in particular, those people charged with designing the game) started over-thinking this stuff and trying to fine-tune the game's math and restrain its variables to a far-too-great degree." You then quite rightly go on to note the follow-on issues this caused around magic items and values in each edition. The other error both 3e and 4e made was to tie item pricing to a rigid formula rather than pricing each different item independently, leading to some inanely over- and under-priced items in both editions. The pricing in 1e and 2e wasn't perfect, but at least these was a sense that someone had tried to evaluate each item based on what it was and what it could do. Another rigidly formulaic approach, only using a different base variable (rarity); and, as you note, coming up with similarly inane results. [/QUOTE]

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