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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imp" data-source="post: 3786960" data-attributes="member: 40094">I don't believe that is necessarily true.  There are certain cases, of course, monsters requiring a +x weapon to hit, etc, but it's not as built into the system, the attack bonuses, AC, etc.  I would say that a 10th level AD&D character is going to be a lot richer and more item-heavy than a 10th level 3.5e character simply because the 10th level AD&D character will have had several times the raw adventuring experience, the way the charts were set up, and unless the DM was extremely stingy with magic items over a long long period, Albras is very very likely to have 5 or even 10 more items than the pregen characters Hussar has pulled out as examples.  This is without running a loot-filled module.  It took a lot longer to get to 10th level fighter in AD&D, unless you were taking in wagon trains of treasure (as in many modules), in which case the items came anyway.</blockquote>