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Message: <blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1635874" data-attributes="member: 16581">Was there a choice in the matter? Was there any way they could have avoided it if they wanted to? Was there a good reason it happened?Players like to feel they have input.  I think some (though not all) roleplayers would get miffed even at getting a super magical item if they had no choice in the matter and it destroyed their sense of what could realistically happen.Edit: I want to clarify, finding a single powerful magic item randomly is probably mostly fine.  The Book of Swords series, for example, has a neat plot where a level one gets basically an artifact and has to deal with it.  But randomly having magic items fall from the sky or in other similarly unrealistic ways, repeatedly, I would be against.  Maybe I'm the only one that's like that... I don't know.  But if I want a phat lewt campaign I'll go play everquest (the MMPOG not the RPG).  I play D&D so I can have choices, and not be an actor following someone else's script.  And unless you come up with a really good reason, no level 1 should be running around with a +5 holy avenger and a ring of regeneration.</blockquote>