Magic Item Compendium

[JustKim]

I didn't see any rules about NOT crafting the rest of the set once you have a piece; in fact, they talk about how to make the remaining pieces.

I plan on making people either go after the other pieces if they want them, or else, the set benefits will be drastically lower; I mean, part of the effect from sets - although it might be more from Diablo flavor-text - is that the powers 'rubbed off' from being used by great heroes and villains.

Remember 2E and the paladin who sidetrekked the entire group with his heroic quests for a holy mount and sword? Granted, probably not if you were the one playing the paladin.

Now imagine that everyone in the group wants a set. At least one, given that some of them are too low-powered to be useful for very long. You are talking about dozens of item quests. If the PCs want to be heroic or do something meaningful, it's going to have to happen in the course of an item quest- and gee, how convenient that the evil ogre was using a veil of storms as a handkerchief!

Personally, I don't want to dedicate a campaign to collecting items that work a little better together, so I'm going to let people get ahold of them without a dedicated quest.

 

[ohGr]

Don't see it. Still getting used to the layout... I might have missed it.

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Now imagine that everyone in the group wants a set. At least one, given that some of them are too low-powered to be useful for very long.

One of the things that was repeated in MIC was the idea of simply adding on to items as you gain in power, rather than replacing them. In addition, several of the items mention that they were originally spread by folks getting a piece and making the rest.

So yeah, I think the designers were trying to avoid the Quest for Items idea. Heck, the Sets aren't so much artifacts as just items with a synergy bonus. You can also see it in other items throughour the book which add something if used with another item. (Such as "if you're also using a wisdom boosting item, the modifier adds to the blah blah".)

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Bother
so my FLGS says that the book was shipped late, and will arrive next week, while the big chains got it first.
The Other LGS just said they would have it next week, but provided no further info.
Not enough for me to rethink my only buy gaming books from gaming stores poilcy, but still annoying.

As a FLGS store owner, as well as a huge gaming geek, I sympathize doubly so. I'll be getting my copies in today (though I can't sell them until tomorrow), whereas people that purchased through, say, Amazon.com got theirs a week ago.

 

[Vocenoctum]

As a FLGS store owner, as well as a huge gaming geek, I sympathize doubly so. I'll be getting my copies in today (though I can't sell them until tomorrow), whereas people that purchased through, say, Amazon.com got theirs a week ago.

I'm not sure why the book trade believes the street date is the 13th and the Hobby trade thinks it's the 20th. It used to be the opposite (hobby stores got books middle of the month, book trade end of the month) and I doubt this is an intentional thing.

 

[Seeten]

Trampas/Dragonhelm,

Np. If you mean the Set...eh. it's not bad. Honestly I felt like they could have done better in places. But overall it's pretty decent.

Did you want more info on that set?

Get on IRC I have questions for you that cannot wait. =P

 

[Mistwell]

About what percentage of the book would you say is entirely new, not reprinted from another source? And same question for the Spell Compendium.

Having spent the weekend reading about half the Magic Item Compendium, it sure seems like a huge amount is new.

 

[Master of the Game]

My FLGS doesn't have it yet. I gave up and ordered it from Amazon. It got sent out the next day, and should be here tomorrow or the next day.

I got mine yesterday... only one day after my FLGS started stocking them.

Sucks really, I'm an FLGS kinda guy, but terribly impatient. If I had known that they would have them so quickly I probably would have just waited, but I have had bad experiences where, when something didn't come in on time, it didn't come in within weeks of the street date.

Even WotC stuff. *shrug* Usually it's a good store, but sometimes...

 

[johnnype]

Nice book but I think they should have given some space to special materials. It'd been nice if they had included, say, glassteel and all the other materials spread over the various books. Eberron has a bunch of interesting materials that non-users of the setting might have found useful.

Great book though.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I'm not sure why the book trade believes the street date is the 13th and the Hobby trade thinks it's the 20th. It used to be the opposite (hobby stores got books middle of the month, book trade end of the month) and I doubt this is an intentional thing.

I don't know either, but my distributor wouldn't send it to me until the day before the street date they had (Mar 20th), despite the fact that I quibbled with them about people already having it from Amazon.

It looks like it's pretty much a WotC thing though, as I can get, say, White Wolf stuff with the same street date as is listed for the "big guys."

It is an awesome book though. Seriously.