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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6561687" data-attributes="member: 6776887">True, a DM could definitely break the game with too many or too powerful of magic items.&nbsp; I only have my conversion of Age of Worms to go off of.While I kept many of the magic items, the 5e assumptions about magic items, 3 attunement slots, and action economy add many real choices to the buffet of magic items offered up by a 3.5 adventure.&nbsp; * +X items scale down to fit in 5e's limit.&nbsp; +1 and +2 = +1, +3 and +4 = +2, and +5 and up = +3. I also only put +x items on named NPCs. or treasure hoards.* The players quickly got the point of: okay, I have these magic items, but I cannot use them all because of attunement slots.&nbsp; 1 player has a ring of protection, a brooch of shielding, and a rod of empower (per the sorcerer ability 3/day). He is done in terms of attunement items until he gives something up.* Many other items that do something cool have a limitation because of action economy.&nbsp; I adapted a wand of cure light wounds into a wand of healing word modeled after a wand of magic missile for the charges. Because it means using an action, they generally don't touch it except to keep someone from bleeding out.So in actual play, all the non spell casters generally have a +1 to hit and +1 to AC.&nbsp; They might also have some other good item, but it does not change the balance of things very much.&nbsp; In the end, they still get scared of the bad guys.If I were to start over again, I would have skipped the wands of CLW and Shatter and possibly divided the value of the treasure by 10.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 6561687, member: 6776887"] True, a DM could definitely break the game with too many or too powerful of magic items. I only have my conversion of Age of Worms to go off of. While I kept many of the magic items, the 5e assumptions about magic items, 3 attunement slots, and action economy add many real choices to the buffet of magic items offered up by a 3.5 adventure. * +X items scale down to fit in 5e's limit. +1 and +2 = +1, +3 and +4 = +2, and +5 and up = +3. I also only put +x items on named NPCs. or treasure hoards. * The players quickly got the point of: okay, I have these magic items, but I cannot use them all because of attunement slots. 1 player has a ring of protection, a brooch of shielding, and a rod of empower (per the sorcerer ability 3/day). He is done in terms of attunement items until he gives something up. * Many other items that do something cool have a limitation because of action economy. I adapted a wand of cure light wounds into a wand of [I]healing word[/I] modeled after a wand of [I]magic missile[/I] for the charges. Because it means using an action, they generally don't touch it except to keep someone from bleeding out. So in actual play, all the non spell casters generally have a +1 to hit and +1 to AC. They might also have some other good item, but it does not change the balance of things very much. In the end, they still get scared of the bad guys. If I were to start over again, I would have skipped the wands of CLW and Shatter and possibly divided the value of the treasure by 10. [/QUOTE]

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