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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 3805157" data-attributes="member: 94">If that's true, the designers are remarkably naive.If there's still a magic sword that gives a fighter +1 to hit and +1 to damage, you will want it.Same for shields, armor, gloves of ogre power, all the usual stuff.So we change the assumption from &quot;difficulty based on a party with magic equipment&quot; to &quot;difficulty based on a party without magic equipment.&quot;So again... Assuming that magic items still offer some tangible, mechanical (+1, +2, +3 etc.) benefit, then any given encounter is easier if you have magic items. Which means that instead of a situation where DMs must give out magic items in order for the party to remain competitive, now DMs will be afraid to give out magic items.If characters without magic items are somehow able to stay exactly on parity with those with magic items... well then there's nothing particularly interesting about having magic items anymore.I maintain that this is a HUGE HUUUUUUUUUGE departure from the heart of D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 3805157, member: 94"] If that's true, the designers are remarkably naive. If there's still a magic sword that gives a fighter +1 to hit and +1 to damage, [i]you will want it.[/i] Same for shields, armor, gloves of ogre power, all the usual stuff. So we change the assumption from "difficulty based on a party with magic equipment" to "difficulty based on a party without magic equipment." So again... Assuming that magic items still offer some tangible, mechanical (+1, +2, +3 etc.) benefit, then any given encounter is easier if you have magic items. Which means that instead of a situation where DMs [i]must[/i] give out magic items in order for the party to remain competitive, now DMs will be [i]afraid[/i] to give out magic items. If characters without magic items are somehow able to stay [i]exactly[/i] on parity with those with magic items... well then there's nothing particularly interesting about having magic items anymore. I maintain that this is a HUGE HUUUUUUUUUGE departure from the heart of D&D. [/QUOTE]

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