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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9466132" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>The truth was, nobody was going to roll over the game with +1 weapons and rings of protection +1 and the occasional Wand of Lightning.  The problem was if someone was using the random treasure generation (and with most people, why wouldn't they?  The fact they were in the book implied they were appropriate) random rolls could toss up a lot of more potent stuff simply by luck and how many magic items were generated.  The different tables sometimes had trends in terms of type of magic items, and the individual magic tables weighted toward weaker items, but if you rolled enough those +4 Shields, Staves of Power and intelligent Flaming Swords would come up.  Accumulate a lot of that and you could have characters who punched harder than their levels might suggest.</p></blockquote><p></p>