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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6317604" data-attributes="member: 5143">I assume you haven't played Living Greyhawk or Living Forgotten Realms before then.The key is that this is a method to discourage cheating.  It sounds like you'll be able to play a home game version of Tyranny of Dragons and take that same character and then go and play in a D&D Epics or D&D Expeditions game.  Now, since it's a home game version, it's certainly possible(we don't know the exact rules for home play of Tyranny of Dragons yet) that your DM decides to just hand out a powerful magic item to you.Now if you go to Gen Con and play in the D&D Expeditions game you could in theory trade that magic item to someone else for a +1 sword.  If everyone does this, it suddenly means that everyone has really powerful magic items.  Worse yet, since it was a home game where you acquired this powerful magic item, there is no proof the game happened at all.  So, you could write up a 10th level character and claim you finished the Tyranny of Dragons adventure and just give yourself a bunch of powerful magic items.  This rule prevents you from distributing the fake magic items.On the other hand, if you play through D&D Encounters in a public location there is a record that the game happened.  A store approved the game and likely the DM.  Which means there were likely other players at the table who also had their names recorded and observed in public.  The results from public games are reported directly to WOTC.  So, if you play in public, you get a certificate saying "Yes, you got this item in a legal and certified non-cheating way".  Part of the benefit of doing that allows you to trade it to other people.The limit on trading is almost definitely there because otherwise 2 people who knew each other could just trade 2 items over and over again.  Each time one went to a convention, they'd be the one with the really good item they found.  Then, they'd trade again before the other one went to a convention.</blockquote>

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