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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4220595" data-attributes="member: 1879">RE: Direct to market PC sales, it's been there in all editions, but most PC are willing to put up with a 50% loss in value as a time saver. Now that it's going to be an 80-93% loss in value... I forsee a lot more PCs getting cranky at the merchants.In any event this was the bit that caught my eye: "The 5th-level NPC has a 6th-level item—not because he needs it, but because it’s one of the treasure parcels. The characters don’t find magic items that are beneath their notice—they won’t walk out of the drow enclave with a wheelbarrow full of +1 rapiers. "Okay... If the Drow weren't fighting with +1 rapiers I can live with that. But if they were wearing plate mail, I'd better bloody well have the option of leaving with a wagon full of platemail. Otherwise it's just like every computer game ever made where the equipment the badguy was hitting you over the head with doesn't exist, those are just pixels, but he does drop some random loot he wasn't using. Watching a swarm of mosquitos drop a suit of full plate is amusing in Diablo. In D&D? Not so much.</blockquote>