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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5782856" data-attributes="member: 710">Aren't you just describing how magic items were just as much part of the "assumed" baseline in previous editions as before? If you were to face certain monsters, you absolutely needed to have a certain +X item. If you didn't, you weren't just a little "under par" - you could outright forget fighting these creatures.And in the end, weren't these items still not just... boring. "Oh, I guess I need a higher plus for this one. Okay, magical items are cool because I need them to beat enemies. Got it."A Bag of Holding is cooler than a +5 Sword you're proficient with. It unfortunately doen't help you kill a Balor, but, well, at least it has some magical effect on it.A broom of flying can change the entire way you think of movement and travel. I don't think any commoner will notice whether you got a +1 sword or a +5 sword. "Oh, Bob the FIghter, yeah, I remember him. I saw him kill a Troll once. Pretty impressive. And that demon lord. Yeah, It hink he may have had a different sword then, could be, why not, I mean, they sure break sometimes don't they? His friend that Halfling Jon was funny, though. One day he came back with a broom that flew! Think of it! Flying! That must be an awesome feeling. I don't know, this fighting trolls and demons stuff really sounded mostly dangerous, I am glad that Bob was into that. But the broom. That would be fun to play it. Almost as comfy and fast as a horse, and you fly. I think the wizard guy made a bag of holding once. Think about it! Take that broom, and the bag, and you could travel everywhere! You could probably even make a decent living of it! I don't know why they kept being adventurers. I've heard Bob even died once! I'd have stopped long ago with that broom and the bag. The things I could do with that!"</blockquote>

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