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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6855371" data-attributes="member: 12731">The first two sentences got me interested, but then you lost me."expected gear levels" is NOT A THING in 5th Edition. And I have a hard time reading "leaving that bag of worm to the individual DM" as anything else than "the DM have to do all the very tricky and intricate work, instead of being able to pay WotC for a well-balanced playtested version".Doing such a subsystem is NOT easy. It is far from trivial. In fact, it's bloody hard and probably weeks of work. I want WotC to take my money by publishing a supplement where items are priced according to function; where each ability or bonus and combination is priced according to usefulness.And by usefulness I do mean "...in combat", since there and only there does balance matter.It doesn't have to be perfect (the 3E-era efforts sure weren't) but it does have to do the (massive) groundwork that the current effort simply doesn't do. The current effort is simply pitiful - worse than nothing. Check the "Sane Magical Prices" list and associated forum discussion if you want details; let's not bring that up here.I'm not proposing to magically add pages to your DMG suddenly forcing you to open Magic Shoppes in your campaign, ExploderWizard.This would be a SUPPLEMENT. Not a core book.I would find it tremendously valuable. You might not buy it at all.</blockquote>