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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 25799" data-attributes="member: 1710">While I'm rolling...The idea that the DM was removing unbalancing magic items from the game doesn't wash, whether he went about it the right way or not shouldn't even be in question. Why?Because the player said he was going to sell them as soon as possible. Poof, no more items. Just harmless gold. The DM doesn't have to let the player buy another over-powered item with all that gold, so the problem dissapears. Furthermore, the NPC buying this gear doesn't have to give a good price for it. Maybe he's got 15 Rod's of Lordly Might right there in the shop and is only willing to part with a few hundred GP to buy another. The player gets low-balled on a few prices, sucks it up, and moves on. The player is reasonably happy, the DM doesn't have to worry about the over-powered items anymore, and all is right with the world.But in this case the DM just wanted to screw someone, and you can tell that by the way things went down. All you have to do is take a hard enough look at the context in which it all occurred and it becomes clear. If this was all an honest mistake, it certainly was a brutal one.This all assumes that the DM knew the player wanted to sell, though. But if we take what they said here at face value, he knew.</blockquote>