Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="RLBURNSIDE" data-source="post: 5577405" data-attributes="member: 94650">..."For one thing, there is a depth of stupidity in iron armbands being  uncommon (so cannot be obtained easily) while any essentials MBA  spamming class can get common bracers of archery/bracers of mighty  striking (which do the same thing, only on basic attacks)."The cynic in me thinks that decision was not stupid so much as under-handed, in that it was calculated to "encourage" crap-tasticly boring Essentials builds on people, because they can no longer buy Iron Armbands / Archery Bracers. This, of course, to sell people the new books.That said, I can't even play non-essentials classes at all at  my local gaming place, and they call pre-Essentials stuff FourthCore, as IF PHB-1 is too hard-core for non-ultra-extreme gamers to understand that we cannot possibly cope with the sheer complexity of it all. It's all a cash grab and in the end, makes me play Pathfinder there instead. Don't rename 4th edition to 4th-Core and tell me my PHB-1 is now the "Advanced" version....ugh. This is business 101 : Planned Obsolescence. They managed to do it in reverse : Everyone buys into it!! Why are we even worrying about what Wotc thinks items should be classified as ?? They are clearly incompetent at their own game. Or they're pulling a fast one on us. If anything, the static properties should be the rare ones, if we are going by always-on Utility == Value metric. Most of the 4e items are garbage. I guess the hobo in me does like to sift through it, to find some rare junk that fits well with niche builds, but that's about it.</blockquote>

Verification