Magic Items Adjustments

[TheShedim]

On the subject of magic items, I feel that the system is very restrictive. If the game assumes that your weapon, armor, and neck slot are appropriate leveled or the numbers do not work. So for the numbers to work, I am restricted in the items I can award the party.

To deal with this I am planning on using these house rules:

1) Weapons, armor, and neck slot items do not give bonuses to attacks or defenses. All players gain a bonus to attack/defense equal to level/5 rounded mathematically.
2) Items are the level equivalent of their lowest level availability.
3) Crit bonus multiplier is separated from the weapon. Multiplier is level/5 rounded mathematically. The weapon still determines the die used.
4) Progressively increasing items, such as items that give increasing bonuses to resistance are the equivalent of the lowest level and progress each tier based on the player.

Obviously this would change the parcel structure (which was the point) so that magic items can be much rarer and last much longer.
The two issues that have come up are the non-magical armors with minimum enhancement bonus, and a question of necessity of the final rule. Any opinions?

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

The two issues that have come up are the non-magical armors with minimum enhancement bonus, and a question of necessity of the final rule. Any opinions?

Check out my Tome of House Rules, where you'll find the simple and complete Item Independence variant.

TS

 

[Alex319]

For the masterwork armors, the simplest way to do it is to just say that you can't use the armor until your attack/defense bonus is equal to the minimum enhancement bonus. (This gives the closest result to the original intent, because in your house rules the attack/defense bonus essentially replaces the enhancement bonus.)