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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4804181" data-attributes="member: 18701">A thing I see more & more every year and it disturbs me more and more is people saying, "Well in the [insert book name here] it suggests doing....". So instead of thinking logically with their own brain first and then using the books to tweak their ideas & improve them, they go straight for whatever the rulebooks say & use that to support their reasons for why they incorporate things in their game world (in this case, magic item shops).I'm not as old school as a lot of people here, so maybe you old farts can tell me; was this the way people did things back in 1e & 2e? I started mid 2e and only have experience from one 2e group, and we didn't do this. So this trait carried over with me when I began DMing 3e. The way I approach the game is I imagine how a world might work, set some boundaries for the world, and then I take what I like from the rulebooks. So just because the MIC says that I can handle magic items a certain way doesn't mean that that is the way I should be doing it. But so many people expect a campaign to run the way the rulebooks suggest. Do DMs even think for themselves? I still have never heard one good reason for why a PC should get to go on magic item shopping sprees just because the player metagames and reads through the DMG like it's a Sears catalog. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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