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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valmur_Dwur" data-source="post: 311628" data-attributes="member: 5065"><p>Ok I know your talking about individual items but why not have it be that the pcs can't just walk around with a bunch of items hanging off them.  You could make it so that after all the slots are filled they must divest themselves of all magic items before picking up another or they all explode, disappear, join together as a magic golem type fighter thingie, etc....  I don't know how you are with the identifing of magic items up front but IMC you'll spend alot of gold just to find out that the sword is a +1.  Because I agree with you that pcs shouldn't have 3 rings, 2 rods, 5 weapons and a suit of armor.  But I also beleive that is the DM's job to make sure that doesn't happen.  Use thieves, mentors, friends, churches whatever it takes to keep the magic count down.  The biggest failing I've seen amongst DM's is that we know that the item is just too cool for the (insert pc here) not to have and so we fudge its use.  I've learned that it's better to use all the trick that the villian has to destroy the party than to wimp him out and have it be (Christmas at my house<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).  The parties I ran have always talked about the cool battles not the phat loot they got off what's his name<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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