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<blockquote data-quote="ATO_DM" data-source="post: 308919" data-attributes="member: 5289">A few points.1. The fact that PCs generally have more magic items than the NPCs in the DMG is what makes them PCs. The players have charted their characters and kept track of everything. The DMG NPCs are for quick referencing to cut down on prep work. They have what you need to know for a fight and nothing more.2. There are other measures of wealth besides magic items. Your DMG NPC might not have all that many items, but would likely make up for that by having land and property.3. Having characters with very few magic items IS playing by the core rules. Hopefully the PCs target wealth isn't attained primarily by the magic items he hauls around. Land, Property, Fame, Contacts, Followers, Favors (Mundane and Divine) are all perfectly acceptable equivalents to wealth.4. Parties encountering things with Damage Reduction or Immunities that the players can't obviously overcome with their Magic Sword isn't screwing the party it's challenging them. Challenge ratings don't assume they'd necessarily have gear to overcome the obstacle. They could use spells (Clerical spells that give bonuses to weapons are nifty when encountering DR), OR they could use some quick thinking. Overcoming the Challenge of a monster doesn't mean the group is necessarily killing it, simply defeating it.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ATO_DM, post: 308919, member: 5289"] A few points. 1. The fact that PCs generally have more magic items than the NPCs in the DMG is what makes them PCs. The players have charted their characters and kept track of everything. The DMG NPCs are for quick referencing to cut down on prep work. They have what you need to know for a fight and nothing more. 2. There are other measures of wealth besides magic items. Your DMG NPC might not have all that many items, but would likely make up for that by having land and property. 3. Having characters with very few magic items IS playing by the core rules. Hopefully the PCs target wealth isn't attained primarily by the magic items he hauls around. Land, Property, Fame, Contacts, Followers, Favors (Mundane and Divine) are all perfectly acceptable equivalents to wealth. 4. Parties encountering things with Damage Reduction or Immunities that the players can't obviously overcome with their Magic Sword isn't screwing the party it's challenging them. Challenge ratings don't assume they'd necessarily have gear to overcome the obstacle. They could use spells (Clerical spells that give bonuses to weapons are nifty when encountering DR), OR they could use some quick thinking. Overcoming the Challenge of a monster doesn't mean the group is necessarily killing it, simply defeating it. :) [/QUOTE]

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