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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1263672" data-attributes="member: 6398">Of course, the issue isn't magic items or no magic items, but of a few magic items to boost some abilities and magic items being the focus of action.I would instead argue that magic, particularly the casters, have now become too integral to the game.  Previously an option, now a neccessity.Indeed.  Not my solution, which is fairly complicated but, I would hope, equally elegant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Ah, that's the key here: Relative.  What makes a plausible game for some comes across as unplausible to others.However, taking your example above (Aragorn = Ranger 8, World = Peons), you'll find what I find to be both more plausible and more attractive as a game.  Why more attractive?  Well, the idea of the game is that the characters (my PC, your PC, all of our PCs) are special, unique, and superior.  However, in a game world where adventurers are so common that economics are based on them and that powerful magic items can be purchased (either off-the-rack or by commision) tells me that my character isn't special, unique or superior.  Indeed, now our characters are simply adventurers just like all the non-special, non-unique, and non-superior NPCs running around me creating the economy and magic items.Boy, take the wind out of my sails...</blockquote>

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