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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 1189633" data-attributes="member: 2480">I apologise if I sounded like I was accusing you of being deficient as a DM, Mouseferatu! I know from your many previous posts that you are a very capable DM! I guess I am reacting to many other posts, not from you, where DMs don't seem to want to give the system a try. They don't say, as you have, that they deliberately want a different feel, but rather that '3e's way of handling magic items is wrong!' I've seen people who seem to feel that somehow the older way was the only right way.  And it's not like I think that the 'old' way is particularly logical, consistent or coherent. Magic items are produced from the ether with scarcely an explanation other than story-driven necessity. Someone must make these items, and yet PCs can never aspire to do so (or rather they can, but like I say the methodologies are so over the top and absurd that very very few beings would ever entertain the notion). I always found the old way unsatisfactory, which is why I do like 3e's approach. Now there many be problems with the specific balance (mostly born out of the legacy caster mechanics and spells I think), but the basic idea is a fair and coherent one. It may not work well to tell Lord of the Rings but then I don't care; I game to tell my stories, not someone else's!  I wonder if my opinion is coloured by having played Ars Magica for a great many years? That game system, for those who don't know it, has a nice mechanism for creating magical items. Indeed it's an integral part of the power of a Magus to be able to craft and call upon magic items. And since Jonathon Tweet was involved with Ars Magica we can perhaps see the inspiration. Ahhh... I hadn't made the connection before - I think that's why I like 3e's approach to magic! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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