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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4804348" data-attributes="member: 18701">Asking a question & disagreeing with a viewpoint makes me condescending? Ok.I can argue so many points about your post, but I don't mean to be argumentative as you are being with me. I will just say that I don't agree and leave it at that.I'm not trying to argue about anything. I'm not even saying it makes a game bad. I just keep hearing people trying to prove points in this thread by saying, "It says in so-n-so book that..." and I'm questioning why that is supposed to be reason enough for why it's not good if a DM doesn't have magic item shops. When that is your answer & you say it as if that's good enough to prove your point, then no, you are not thinking for yourself. But when you say:that's a very good explanation for why you would use magic item shops in your campaign. It's not a good enough reason for me to resort to it, but I understand why someone would for that reason. I guess my last post was asking more of "why do more people seem to use the rulebooks to dictate how their world works rather than creating their own way for how their world works"? And I am not talking about 'crunch', such as why a sword does 1d8 dmg. I'm referring to 'fluff', the things that make your world come alive. A reason I ask is because I even got a negative reaction in this thread when I mentioned how my campaign works....as if it's a negative thing to do. So people obviously have an expectation about magic items no matter what world a DM runs (just because that's what the rulebooks say?).It seems like more players complain about magic items when this is the way the group approaches the creation of a campaign world & their PCs. Player attitude towards this would be a lot different if they never had access to the DMG & MIC.No...I'm pretty sure that's not it.</blockquote>

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