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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 4588339" data-attributes="member: 7006">See, the funny part was that I wasn't referring to the concept of a &quot;magic shop&quot; in of itself.&nbsp; I was referring to the illuminously descriptive picture that Keefe the Thief was using to paint his Ye Olde Magic Shoppe.&nbsp; By coloring his shoppe as a place where &quot;a hideously deformed guy with killer golems hovering behind the counter cackles madly as you part with 1/2 a pound of gold for a shimmering little ring&quot;, and other such descriptions... you can regain the sense of mystery and wonder about the concept of magic that so many people were decrying in the thread this was forked from.Because the fluff was gone from the 3E/4E magical items or because the multi-functionality was no longer present in most items, or because each type of item was standardized in form and function... the &quot;magic&quot; was gone.&nbsp; Which is ONLY true if you are one of the people I referred to above if you only can seem to use that which is given you, written down in one of the books.&nbsp; But as Keefe the Thief proves... so long as you do the work to make your campaign magical, your campaign will BE magical.&nbsp; With or without the books themselves having this &quot;magical fluff&quot; already included in its text.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 4588339, member: 7006"] See, the funny part was that I wasn't referring to the concept of a "magic shop" in of itself. I was referring to the illuminously descriptive picture that Keefe the Thief was using to paint his Ye Olde Magic Shoppe. By coloring his shoppe as a place where "a hideously deformed guy with killer golems hovering behind the counter cackles madly as you part with 1/2 a pound of gold for a shimmering little ring", and other such descriptions... you can regain the sense of mystery and wonder about the concept of magic that so many people were decrying in the thread this was forked from. Because the fluff was gone from the 3E/4E magical items or because the multi-functionality was no longer present in most items, or because each type of item was standardized in form and function... the "magic" was gone. Which is ONLY true if you are one of the people I referred to above if you only can seem to use that which is given you, written down in one of the books. But as Keefe the Thief proves... so long as you do the work to [I]make[/I] your campaign magical, your campaign will BE magical. With or without the books themselves having this "magical fluff" already included in its text. [/QUOTE]

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