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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6444098" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think 4E leaned heavily in some ways in the direction of an MMO to the point that many players disliked aspects of it because of it. With no gold piece value for magic items, 5E appears to be reacting (or overreacting) to that and hearkening to the days of 2E and avoiding the fact that cost was part of 1E, 3E, and 4E. I am a bit surprised that WotC would do this considering that if a given DM doesn't want magic item costs, he can ignore them. But if a given DM prefers the cost concept that has been around for 3 editions out of 4, he has nowhere to go except to do the work himself and set up his own costs. That just seems like a bad design decision considering that many DMs might expect that to be part of D&D.I suspect that I will be using a lot of influence from 1E and 3E costs (although even there, one has to take into account that a +5 3E ring is probably the same as a +3 5E ring, etc.), but I shouldn't have to. IMO.I'm kind of hoping that WotC puts up an online document for specific magic item costs in the future.</blockquote>