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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7330223" data-attributes="member: 22424">It actually depends on your philosophical view of magic items. If you view them as genuine wonders, there isn't really anything - maybe those rare blades and instruments you mention, but perhaps not. But if you take a more utilitarian view of magic, where a magic sword is just a better sword, then there are plenty of examples. One that immediately springs to mind would be those top-end custom gaming PCs that you can spend thousands on.(And it's perhaps worth noting that those PCs also have the same &quot;hamster wheel&quot; as the 3e-style magic items, although for a slightly different reason - to stay with &quot;the best&quot;, you have to keep upgrading, but with the PCs it's because the technology keeps improving, while for PCs it's because better magic items become affordable...)That does not follow. There are many possible reasons for the success of 5e (with the most likely explanation being some combination of several). Tying it to just one, and indeed a fairly minor one, is a stretch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 7330223, member: 22424"] It actually depends on your philosophical view of magic items. If you view them as genuine wonders, there isn't really anything - [i]maybe[/i] those rare blades and instruments you mention, but perhaps not. But if you take a more utilitarian view of magic, where a magic sword is just a better sword, then there are plenty of examples. One that immediately springs to mind would be those top-end custom gaming PCs that you can spend thousands on. (And it's perhaps worth noting that those PCs also have the same "hamster wheel" as the 3e-style magic items, although for a slightly different reason - to stay with "the best", you have to keep upgrading, but with the PCs it's because the technology keeps improving, while for PCs it's because better magic items become affordable...) That does not follow. There are many possible reasons for the success of 5e (with the most likely explanation being some combination of several). Tying it to just one, and indeed a fairly minor one, is a stretch. [/QUOTE]

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