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<blockquote data-quote="redcard" data-source="post: 4331262" data-attributes="member: 68928">You know, when I was a young lad, I would dutifully make my list out every christmas to Santa for the things I wished for. I'd send this off in the mail (or so my parents said), and then on Christmas day, I'd open the presents.&nbsp; Sometimes I would get what I want.&nbsp; Sometimes I got more of what I needed than what I wanted.&nbsp; Sometimes, I got neither.A wishlist is not a shopping list.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's just a wishlist.&nbsp; If a player gives me a +2 Flaming Sword on the list, that doesn't mean he's getting it.&nbsp; &nbsp; All it means is he wants one.&nbsp; I don't see why people bristle at this so much.&nbsp; No, it's not your random loot tables from AD&amp;D , where I get a bunch of worthless crap and pawn it off on the market, to get the money, to buy what I want anyway.&nbsp; No, I don't take 50 weeks of downtime to roll 50 times for my profession (underwear modelling) to get the gold to buy what I wanted anyway.&nbsp; I might be scouring a dungeon and randomly trip across it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I might have to pry it from the cold dead hands of my mortal enemy.&nbsp; I might have to quest across the lands of darkness, venturing to the brink of the dead and prying it from Charon himself.. but all of these are FAR more interesting than playing &quot;Buy Low, Sell High&quot; between ten different cities and walking into the Magic'R'Us store in Ultrabigtowne and buying it outright.Wish list.&nbsp; Not shopping list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redcard, post: 4331262, member: 68928"] You know, when I was a young lad, I would dutifully make my list out every christmas to Santa for the things I wished for. I'd send this off in the mail (or so my parents said), and then on Christmas day, I'd open the presents. Sometimes I would get what I want. Sometimes I got more of what I needed than what I wanted. Sometimes, I got neither. A wishlist is not a shopping list. It's just a wishlist. If a player gives me a +2 Flaming Sword on the list, that doesn't mean he's getting it. All it means is he wants one. I don't see why people bristle at this so much. No, it's not your random loot tables from AD&D , where I get a bunch of worthless crap and pawn it off on the market, to get the money, to buy what I want anyway. No, I don't take 50 weeks of downtime to roll 50 times for my profession (underwear modelling) to get the gold to buy what I wanted anyway. I might be scouring a dungeon and randomly trip across it. I might have to pry it from the cold dead hands of my mortal enemy. I might have to quest across the lands of darkness, venturing to the brink of the dead and prying it from Charon himself.. but all of these are FAR more interesting than playing "Buy Low, Sell High" between ten different cities and walking into the Magic'R'Us store in Ultrabigtowne and buying it outright. Wish list. Not shopping list. [/QUOTE]

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