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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6368368" data-attributes="member: 3400">I would consider "unrecognizable" to be something of an exaggeration. We played plenty of 3e that was quite recognizably similar to a 1e dungeoncrawl.That said, magic item creation was probably the element with the most transformative potential that 3e introduced. Fortunately, for DMs that recognized the impact it was having on the game and player motivations, it is pretty easy to weed out of the game by just disallowing the feats and controlling what's available for purchase. And for players who recognized the impact it was having, it was easy for them to either avoid the feats or use them with enough moderation that they weren't throwing the game out of balance. For example, in the 3e game I was running, the sorcerer PC took both Create Wand and Leadership to get a mystic theurge/magic item crafter as a cohort. But he used his feat to make fireball and acidball (energy substitution feat) wands for the rogue to use as a backup when situations got very dangerous for flanking and the theurge cohort was tasked to making items for the party and not just the sorcerer. So rather than serving to supplant another PC with cheap utility spells, the wands went to their initial purpose in 1e - providing a means of firing off attack spells in combat without fear of disruption. And the item creation feats concentrated with the mystic theurge went to benefit the whole party rather than concentrate more magic on a caster with the right feats.</blockquote>

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