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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 4587804" data-attributes="member: 48692">Oh, that's fine.  If most of the PCs have to make do with non-magical weapons, it only makes sense that they buy things like Oil of Impact or Oil of Sharpness to temporarily enchant their weapons when they run into things like perytons or gargoyles.  Again, selling things like potions or oils, and the very occasional charged magic wand or even staff, are all fine.  Such things could be purchased at the wizard's guildhall or the local temple.   And I never meant to say that something like a decanter of endless water couldn't be used in combat-the 2E Monstrous Manual notes that using a decanter to hose down a desert troll, for example, causes 25 points of damage right off the bat and requires the troll to make its saving throw or die.  Another monster that might be harmed by water could also be drenched in that way.  How do you know, for example, that white puddings won't freeze when you drench them in a large supply of water?   If, again, your enemies are using something like a cloudkill or sleeping gas on you, your wind fan could be used to blow the smoke right back in their faces, and leaving them to suffer the same fates they intended for you.   And, again, let me point out that the Zagyg's Flowing Flagon could be used to get those hill giants drunk before you attack them.  If PCs have to suffer penalties to their attack rolls and AC when they're wasted, why shouldn't giants suffer the same fate?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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