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<blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4017919" data-attributes="member: 51325">re: Secondary items being too powerful.I really think posters worried should look at Magic Item Compendium (there is a reason why it is rated as one of the best books on the general forums&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" /> ) and this was considered one of the &quot;preview&quot; books for 4E.Take the Hands slot for example. For pretty much all of the non-heavy armour wearing classes, gauntlets of dexterity are a must have. Hell, even with some heavy armour classes, the benefit of an increase in dex is still so good that they take it.If permanent stat boosters are eliminated though, the difference in options between a guy wearing no gloves guy versus guys with brute gloves, Ghoul gauntlets and Casting gloves will be MUCH, MUCH less than no gloves guy versus gauntlets of Dexterity +2 (to say nothing of the +6 version).I know this is a 3.5 book but you can see where Mearls et al are coming from when they talk about secondary items and options and the effect on the math.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AllisterH, post: 4017919, member: 51325"] re: Secondary items being too powerful. I really think posters worried should look at Magic Item Compendium (there is a reason why it is rated as one of the best books on the general forums :D ) and this was considered one of the "preview" books for 4E. Take the Hands slot for example. For pretty much all of the non-heavy armour wearing classes, gauntlets of dexterity are a must have. Hell, even with some heavy armour classes, the benefit of an increase in dex is still so good that they take it. If permanent stat boosters are eliminated though, the difference in options between a guy wearing no gloves guy versus guys with brute gloves, Ghoul gauntlets and Casting gloves will be MUCH, MUCH less than no gloves guy versus gauntlets of Dexterity +2 (to say nothing of the +6 version). I know this is a 3.5 book but you can see where Mearls et al are coming from when they talk about secondary items and options and the effect on the math. [/QUOTE]

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