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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4806714" data-attributes="member: 710">Well, if you only go to the power level of E6, you only get to +2 swords or so, which are 8,000 gp. That seems relatively reasonable. of course, that also means you only have two types of magic bonuses +1 or +2. But that might be enough anyway.If you remove the pluses entirely and it's more a suite of options (Flaming to deal fire damage, Throwing to be able to throw the weapon and have it return to you, perhaps), it should be even less of a balance problem anyway. In any situation where you don't need fire damage or throw the weapon, a regular, non-magical sword is perfectly equivalent. ---Regarding the Gauntlet: I don't like the fixed strength score entirely. I wouldn't want any character to "dump" his strength because he has the gauntlet. What I prefer is a mix of enhancement and max score. So, Gauntlets of Ogre Power grant you a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength, but no higher than 18. Higher concordance could increase the bonus and the maximum. (+4/20, +6/22). So if your class uses strength as a primary ability score, the best results you get with the gauntlet is when you have a score of 16, not 8. If with the bonus the strength score would go beyond the limit, add additional properties or powers, so even someone that already has "Ogre Strength" benefits from it, but he doesn't "break" the math, but still gets options.</blockquote>