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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 4758343" data-attributes="member: 5122">First, let me say that I completely support your right to ban anything you want from your game.Second, I prefer low-magic games myself, although Eberron has been a surprising (to me) exception.Third, I think the pricing of some items in the MIC is crazy.  As I said up-thread, I've not had an issues with belts of healing, but IMO there are a good number of items in the MIC that are too good for the cost.That said, a game using DMG pricing isn't a low-magic game, and it's not "low-magic" that the MIC fixes (or purports to fix, whichever your perspective may be).A game using the DMG is a normal-magic D&D game (which is to say, magic items are plentiful), but it's a normal-magic game dominated by stat-boosting items, save-boosting items, AC-boosting items, and so forth.  (The Big Six.)By contrast, a game using the MIC is a normal-magic D&D game with higher variety, because for 16,000 gp, you can purchase non-Big Six magic items with a utility in the ballpark of a +4 stat-boosting item (for instance).I think, if you're going to play normal-magic D&D, that increased variety is definitely a good goal to have had in a supplement, even if the mark was missed in some cases.</blockquote>