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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6980543" data-attributes="member: 12731">Let me just add that I have never been interested in crafting. I fully acknowledge how unlimited "build your own weapons" are overpowered and almost impossible to balance.But more importantly, I'm just not interested in downtime. And crafting is downtime.If you actually read the published modules you'll realize they aren't about providing downtime. Sure you can handwave the timing issue, and say Tiamat or Strahd or whomever sits on their hands for months on end to allow the characters to spend months on downtime activities. But to me, downtime is a lie, an illusion. Almost every published adventure module or path is set up on the asumption that there is little or no downtime. And so I want a way to spend gold without any downtime. It's not enough to me to acknowledge players might not be interested in building churches or setting up armies. I want rules that actually provide an alternative that doesn't involve downtime at all.That alternative is buying magic items for gold.Since the DM is in full control over which items are available for sale, this isn't more unbalanced than the overall game. If you can give your PCs items through loot, you can give them the items through shops too.That is why this isn't about crafting, primarily. You still need the framework for creating the items in order to set sane prices on the items, but that doesn't mean you need to allow free crafting.</blockquote>

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