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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4858081" data-attributes="member: 54846">DM here, less fluff.Listen, I know that some folks love paragraphs of fluff for +1 swords. But to me, that's a lot of history for a +1 sword that's going to get chucked for a +2 sword down the road. Multiply that times five PCs, for three necessary item slots, plus any non-big three items, and you get A LOT OF FLUFF for stuff the players are trading out every how many levels? Not to mention that the issue for me is that while the fluff is great, the items are cookie cutter assembly line piss-poor stuff. Again, tons of fluff for a +1 sword still comes down to... a +1 sword. If I'm going to fluff something up, I want it to be interesting in BOTH story AND mechanics. Otherwise, it's like giving a three paragraph backstory to a beer mug. Yeah, artifacts may be awesome, but we have perhaps 10 artifacts? I also think they're a little more complicated. I'd like something that's the middle ground between "Here's an item with an eh daily" and "Here's a two page spread on the artifact's awesome mechanics". But then I've never been satisfied with how D&D handles magical items.</blockquote>