freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
Wow, I'm surprised at the emotional level of this thread!
Here's the issue as I see it, and I think some of you have been trying to say this, but the message has gotten a bit lost.
The DMG and MIC have two different pricing schemes, a lower-magic one and a higher-magic one (neither one is perfectly balanced, either). The problem is that they are kind of meshed together, which leads to inconsistencies. It would have been nice if the MIC tables had repriced the DMG items to the MIC system, so we could have a consistent high-magic pricing (note that some of the SRD psionic items did get repriced in the MIC). It also would have been nice (but WotC would never have gone against whatever their current design philosophy was) if they'd had a listing of MIC items more consistent with the DMG prices.
Here's the issue as I see it, and I think some of you have been trying to say this, but the message has gotten a bit lost.
The DMG and MIC have two different pricing schemes, a lower-magic one and a higher-magic one (neither one is perfectly balanced, either). The problem is that they are kind of meshed together, which leads to inconsistencies. It would have been nice if the MIC tables had repriced the DMG items to the MIC system, so we could have a consistent high-magic pricing (note that some of the SRD psionic items did get repriced in the MIC). It also would have been nice (but WotC would never have gone against whatever their current design philosophy was) if they'd had a listing of MIC items more consistent with the DMG prices.