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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simon Marks" data-source="post: 4221984" data-attributes="member: 56243">We did, because after playing through 15 levels we stopped and had a discussion around "Why is my character unable to function?"We had gone through a level worth of adventure with my Fighter/Thief being unable to hit anything and unable to deal with half the traps.We managed, in the end, to pinpoint this reason - magic items.The rest of the party had above average 'Wealth by level' items, but my character had ... dross.The items we had found was mostly divided up by who could use it - and a lot of it ended up with the other characters. Then the treasure was divided equally. Because my character had ended up with less items suited to him, had ended up with something like 70k Gp worth less of items.Which had crippled me.If your characters end up with a significantly unbalanced amount of "raw wealth" then you may end up unable to contribute to level appropriate challenges. That can happen, especially if you aren't careful.We do it now, to ensure that characters don't end up gimped. Because we have been burnt.If 4e significantly reduces reliance on items so that we don't have to do this - then good.</blockquote>