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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9239677" data-attributes="member: 42582">I actually have a different view from that expressed in both quotes.I personally don't find colourful description all that engaging. The way I make a magic item interesting is because of its power, or its connection to the PC's fictional position, or both. My 4e game features, unsurprisingly, lots of magic items. Some were purely utilitarian; but some had context and meaning, like the PCs' Thundercloud Tower that <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/session-report-against-the-frost-giants.358025/" target="_blank">they first found in the Glacial Rift</a>, and that they then (after <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-abyss-sealed-the-drow-freed-the-campaign-reaches-its-climax.440504/" target="_blank">having abandoned it in the Abyss</a>) <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/session-report-reposted-pcs-stave-of-the-dusk-war-by-negotiating-with-yan-c-bin-and-defeating-the-tarrasque.490454/" target="_blank">recovered from the Djinn and Yan-C-Bin</a>. Some were close to PC-defining, like the Dwarven Fighter-Cleric's mordenkrad <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/whelm-reforged-as-overwhelm-and-other-recent-skill-challenges.324955/" target="_blank">Overwhelm, the reforged Dwarven artefact Whelm</a>.My Torchbearer campaign hasn't featured many magic items, but the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/post-8759690" target="_blank">cursed Elfstone</a> mattered not just because of its curse, but because of the way it <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/post-9075201" target="_blank">linked together different characters and their convictions</a>.When it comes to adventures, I think adventures can be an important exemplar, or even constitutive, of system. Luke Crane made this point, some years ago now on a site that can no longer be found (by me at least) about B2 Keep on the Borderlands, which is a paradigm of classic D&D as presented by Moldvay. CoC is all about their adventures - the sequence of clues and events they precipitate, culminating in the sanity-blasting reveal.And it tells you something about a system if adventures can't be written for it - eg In A Wicked Age.</blockquote>

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