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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 3060927" data-attributes="member: 1044">Stat items don't bother me.  Just part of the game.  I guess I'd maybe like a system where a person could gain stat boosts permanently instead of using the items, and then have less items that were each more interesting, but, I don't have a good fix for it.I like Piratecat's method, but yikes, that's a lot of story to generate for so many stat-boosting items that people will have over the levels!  A lot of players of mine would rather say, if we're starting at higher level -- "ok, I spent 16k gold on a +4 X of Y, 32k on my weapon of X, 32k on my armor of X.  Let's get to the gaming now."I've had a single instance of a player generating a neat one... a player rolled a psion with terrible stats and put them into physical stats.  For his backstory he described himself as the picked on kid who developed psychic powers -- so, in his backstory, once he got psychic powers and levels (we started at 10th) he made a ring of power that raised his str, dex, and con mods from a total of -7 to a total of -2.  I cut him half (or quarter, I don't remember) price for the ring because it was all backstory, useless to him statistically, and his stats were abysmal.  I'm not doing his character justice... he definitely played the creepy old psychic man quite well.</blockquote>