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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8081420" data-attributes="member: 6855114">You are partially right. A lot of the artifact were made a long time ago in an age of myth. As I have said in an other post, there was different power level in magical items that made them barely better than a mundane item. A +1 sword could not hit a creature hit by +2 weapons. Today, even a weapon without bonuses can hit magical monster if said weapon is magical (a vicious weapon for example). As for the drow magical weapons and armors. Remember that these were quasi magical and not magical per say. That is why they would get destroyed if brought into sunlight. When it first came out, my players were so happy with their +3 long swords, chain mails and shields... Only to see then rot under their very eyes under the sunlight.Yes there is a lot of magic items but they are generally less powerful than 5ed version. Wands were a finite resource whereas in5ed if you don't spend the last charge, your wand will last eternally. The same goes with every charged items. Even arrows will not break as in 1ed they were destroyed after striking. Well, a generous DM would allow a save vs crushing blow to recover arrows (if used against mundane opponents) but it was not all DM that would do it. A good reason that Quivers of Ehllona were so sought after and so prized.Again, the low magic aspect is not in the spells, the power or availability of magic but it is in the amount of high level casters. They are rare. In a world were a raise dead is something that is not guaranteed to be available, you don't take chances if you have a choice. High level casters are those that survived.</blockquote>

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