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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5963984" data-attributes="member: 710">What if the DM doesn't want that responsibility? What if he just thinks his players will enjoy getting the occasional magic item but he doesn't want to figure out how it affects game challenges on his own, but simply wants the system to tell him what the effect will be? 4E is a great game for a lazy DM like me. I don't need to figure out how much magic items will change gameplay, the system tells me what I need to give out so it works. It's still seems like a unnecessary hoop to jump through, but okay, if i stick with the base assumption, I can just use the levels and XP values of the monsters and build an interesting combat that I know is easy, moderate, difficult or probably impossible for my players. It doesn't remove the possiblity that in the end my players decide whether the want to tackle these challenges. But if I want to give them some meaningful info that tells them if a challenge is risky or not, I can also use the aforementioned information to guide my narration.I like bounded accuracy. But it only works really well if they get rid of +x items - or at least give us an idea how that will affect combat challenge.s</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 5963984, member: 710"] What if the DM doesn't want that responsibility? What if he just thinks his players will enjoy getting the occasional magic item but he doesn't want to figure out how it affects game challenges on his own, but simply wants the system to tell him what the effect will be? 4E is a great game for a lazy DM like me. I don't need to figure out how much magic items will change gameplay, the system tells me what I need to give out so it works. It's still seems like a unnecessary hoop to jump through, but okay, if i stick with the base assumption, I can just use the levels and XP values of the monsters and build an interesting combat that I know is easy, moderate, difficult or probably impossible for my players. It doesn't remove the possiblity that in the end my players decide whether the want to tackle these challenges. But if I want to give them some meaningful info that tells them if a challenge is risky or not, I can also use the aforementioned information to guide my narration. I like bounded accuracy. But it only works really well if they get rid of +x items - or at least give us an idea how that will affect combat challenge.s [/QUOTE]

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