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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4315328" data-attributes="member: 29398">Perhaps, but it does cut down on use of the spell...some minor items aren't &quot;identified&quot; until they're used, not always with the intended result.&nbsp; Example: a potion that people assume to be healing turns out to be invisibility...party pours it into a dying character and he disappears... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Why oh why does every decision have to be &quot;intelligent&quot;?&nbsp; Yes, obviously you give the magic sword to the front-line tank that can use it...but who gets this plain unadorned magic ring that we don't know what it does?&nbsp; Who wants to field test it, and in so doing take the risk it might be cursed?&nbsp; *That* is the mystery.Magic items in the PHB is a bad move, plain and simple.&nbsp; Easy enough to work around, however, if you as DM don't mind blowing up a weekend sometime and designing your own random item tables...Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 4315328, member: 29398"] Perhaps, but it does cut down on use of the spell...some minor items aren't "identified" until they're used, not always with the intended result. Example: a potion that people assume to be healing turns out to be invisibility...party pours it into a dying character and he disappears... :) Why oh why does every decision have to be "intelligent"? Yes, obviously you give the magic sword to the front-line tank that can use it...but who gets this plain unadorned magic ring that we don't know what it does? Who wants to field test it, and in so doing take the risk it might be cursed? *That* is the mystery. Magic items in the PHB is a bad move, plain and simple. Easy enough to work around, however, if you as DM don't mind blowing up a weekend sometime and designing your own random item tables... Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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