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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurker37" data-source="post: 4383377" data-attributes="member: 9522">I hope you added 50 gp to a treasure package to compensate the group for that. The PCs never, ever have to pay to make any other magical item useable. To charge a fee for holy symbols without giving them extra money to pay that fee would be cruel and vindictive IMO. (If you're worried about whether they will convert the symbol, then add the 50g to a treasure package received after they do so.)By RAW, you should be replacing any found loot in published modules with loot the party can use anyway. So if that symbol wasn't being used by a cleric of Bahamut (in which case why did the PCs kill them?), then it should simply be a symbol of Melora when the party finds it.After all, what hurts versimilitude more: The party finding a useable symbol (the gods do still watch, the just act subtley!) or mighty morphing holy symbols? If the latter bothers you, then save rededication of holy symbols for quests etc. E.G. THE BBEG is an evil cleric. The local temple offers a reward for BBEG's death: bring back his (un)holy symbol, and the temple will reconsecrate it into a symbol of the cleric PC's deity. That makes the symbol a quest reward. Bottom line: The party are trying to rededicate the holy symbol because the DM chose not to follow the guidleines for magical treasure. It is therefore the DM's responsibility to make sure that the party is not disadvantaged by the method of rededication.</blockquote>

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