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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 63653" data-attributes="member: 2">Re: Re: High level 3e magic item purchasing... when does enough become too much?Good lord. What a great collection of ideas and comments. No troll, incidentally; it's really something that I'm thinking about. When is too much? How hard should it be to find stuff? I keep asking myself these questions. Campaign balance is less delicate at 15th level than it is at 5th, but it's still a valid concern.More the former than the latter. Although I no longer control access to the markets to the extent I once did, I think successful and smart players should reap the benefits of their success. I have no interest in arbitrarily limiting access because I'm scared it might be a problem. I'm a lot more interested in making such access interesting and noteworthy, and I'm not sure I've been doing that to the extent I should be.Reapersaurus identified part of my worry; it's harder to judge the effect of several mid-power items than it is one uber-item. I can judge whether or not the staff of righteous wuss-smacking is too powerful or not; it's the combination of the wand of mighty pectorals, orb of lung bursting and scarab of cowering on PCs who have bought them to shore up their defenses.&nbsp; That part is still going to require a leap of faith; but with some of these ideas, at least the acquisition might be fun.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 63653, member: 2"] [b]Re: Re: High level 3e magic item purchasing... when does enough become too much?[/b] Good lord. What a great collection of ideas and comments. No troll, incidentally; it's really something that I'm thinking about. When is too much? How hard should it be to find stuff? I keep asking myself these questions. Campaign balance is less delicate at 15th level than it is at 5th, but it's still a valid concern. More the former than the latter. Although I no longer control access to the markets to the extent I once did, I think successful and smart players should reap the benefits of their success. I have no interest in arbitrarily limiting access because I'm scared it might be a problem. I'm a lot more interested in making such access interesting and noteworthy, and I'm not sure I've been doing that to the extent I should be. Reapersaurus identified part of my worry; it's harder to judge the effect of several mid-power items than it is one uber-item. I can judge whether or not the [i]staff of righteous wuss-smacking[/i] is too powerful or not; it's the combination of the [i]wand of mighty pectorals, orb of lung bursting [/i] and [i]scarab of cowering[/i] on PCs who have bought them to shore up their defenses. That part is still going to require a leap of faith; but with some of these ideas, at least the acquisition might be fun. :D [/QUOTE]

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