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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5557107" data-attributes="member: 94022">To be fair, what he's asking for here is some form of realism, which isn't necessarily shocking or powergamery.  The rules try to create as much realism as possible for a fantasy game, but they often miss some seemingly obvious instances.  Here the complaint is that if he were to carry the staff as a weapon, then there'd be no problem.  But if he wants to use the staff as an implement it doesn't work (or per player B, can't be attached).  Of course, when its being attached to the staff, the shard wouldn't know what the intended use would be. More to the point, its called the Siberys Shard of the Mage, yet appears to be relatively useless to mages (per your description -- I don't own the Eberron books, so going by what you say).  That just doesn't really seem all that logical.  It is far from uncommon for groups to tweak the rules so as to make them seem logical.  Doesn't mean that you have to of course, but a lot of players just want that logic or realism there.  Others don't care.  But it sounds as though you are overreacting a bit here as it really isn't unreasonable for him to be making his case here (in my opinion).  I certainly don't have a problem with you saying no though either.   As others have stated, although he appears to have built a fairly effective character, upon having had a chance to review it closer, it really doesn't seem like he's really breaking anything, or being overly cheesy, etc.</blockquote>

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