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<blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2718484" data-attributes="member: 141">You have to be careful not to get so carried away with flavor (and real world parallels or inspirations count as flavor) that you forget how the feat was balanced.If the feat was balanced on the consideration that you could never, ever use magic items, then allowing a VoP character to use a magic item (let alone an artifact) is not balanced.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's like giving a character an item whose value is way over the recommended treasure per level.&nbsp; A 1st level character with 15th level gear or something while the other PCs make do with their starting gp.&nbsp; This is unbalanced, but sometimes you might want to do it; the story might even demand it.&nbsp; As the DM you could do it, but you shouldn't say that it is balanced.So it is, imho, with the vow of poverty.&nbsp; The recommended treasure per level for a VoP character is virtually zero.&nbsp; Any exceptions should be as watched as vigilantly as letting a first level halfling have a cursed ring of improved invisibility as a plot device.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cheiromancer, post: 2718484, member: 141"] You have to be careful not to get so carried away with flavor (and real world parallels or inspirations count as flavor) that you forget how the feat was balanced. If the feat was balanced on the consideration that you could never, ever use magic items, then allowing a VoP character to use a magic item (let alone an artifact) is not balanced. It's like giving a character an item whose value is way over the recommended treasure per level. A 1st level character with 15th level gear or something while the other PCs make do with their starting gp. This is unbalanced, but sometimes you might want to do it; the story might even demand it. As the DM you could do it, but you shouldn't say that it is balanced. So it is, imho, with the vow of poverty. The recommended treasure per level for a VoP character is virtually zero. Any exceptions should be as watched as vigilantly as letting a first level halfling have a cursed ring of improved invisibility as a plot device. [/QUOTE]

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