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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1263472" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, he also has two Robots who save his bacon constantly, get his own custom X-wing star fighter and attains the rank of General in a very short time.  Oh, and he gets to be a powerful Jedi among non-Jedi (of course that guy that plays Han is even more twinked...he took Enemy: Jabba, just so he could get his own starship).   This would be the same Aragorn who is fully tricked out with all sorts of Elven magic items, hunts and loots orcs, explores ancient dwarven underground cities and has access to ancient arsenals of the kings of old?   Well, he's also a darned good swordsman...and he has a unique magic item.  Which is why you could make that statement.  Buffy gets lots of magic items during the course of the series, many of which get passed around (such as the magic ring that allows vampires into the daylight) and her mentor opens up a magic shop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  The final story arc of buffy had to do with a powerful magic weapon, in fact.  Actually, I'd argue that D&D has always been this way.  I don't recall many 15th level fighters running around in 1e without magic equipment.  Magic items are an unfortunate necessity to allow the non-magic classes to keep up with the casters.  Otherwise a 20th level fighter would just be a target...as opposed to someone like the Warduke's new incarnation from the recent issue of Dungeon.  If you take away magic items, then you're giving the magic-using characters a big boost in power, and leaving the have-nots as sitting ducks for CR-appropriate opponents. I always liked (though have never used) Colonel Hardisson's idea of forcing all magic-users to alternate every level with a non-spellcasting class.  A fairly simple and somewhat elegant solution, I thought. (oh, and some folks think Aragorn is a 8th-level ranger with a +2 sword, in a world of 1st-level commoners and warriors....it's all relative). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I want my character to shine for the deeds that got him his treasure, not for the treasures that do the deeds for him.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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