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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeanP" data-source="post: 6841179" data-attributes="member: 6681963">I've done similar things in the past. I sometimes like the idea of the characters and stories in which a character begins with an "ancestral heirloom" or find a potent magic item that they use throughout the campaign arc. I never liked the idea of a magic weapon becoming obsolete because you find a better item several levels later.  It's why I really like what 5e did with magic items a and especially magic weapons. The weapon you described, would be something akin to Excalibur, Stormbringer, Narsil, etc. I think it can work. If you feel you need to lessen the early benefits, have conditions that must be met to achieve the full properties of the weapon ( a ritual, the slaying of a specific beast, a blessing by a specific being, the insertion of  magic gems into the hilt, etc).  Maybe it starts as a +1 weapon, but if some specific conditions are met, it can improve to +2 and then +3.</blockquote>