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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9199048" data-attributes="member: 12731">Let me simplify for you:Adventures hand out gold and lots of it. If the rulebooks tell GMs what items should cost (and "just randomize or make up a number" is NOT an acceptable answer) then the game is helpful and useful.So do that. The game can still claim the game is designed in such a way that magic items aren't necessary. That's still true. But the way WoTC currently gets to both eat the cake and still have it is atrocious. I mean how official adventures are loaded with gold, without there being official rules for how to spend it, and those rules giving balanced numeric advice on magic items specifically.They could easily change their adventures in such a way to not hand out gold, and also tell DMs no magic weapons are needed to complete these scenarios.But they don't do that because people like gold and they like magic items. WotC just don't want to do the actual work required to come up with balanced price lists.That's easily the worst downgrade of the entire edition.</blockquote>