Rodrigo Istalindir
Explorer
Patryn said:
That's what I miss. It just seems less and less common anymore. I blame item creation feats and computer games. And the communists. And flouride in the water supply.
Preferred weapon -- are feats specific enough?
- Thread starter Driddle
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That's what I miss. It just seems less and less common anymore. I blame item creation feats and computer games. And the communists. And flouride in the water supply.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Rodrigo Istalindir said:
Have to say that coming at it from a module prospective, unless your GM ran White Plume Mountain and you got Black Razor, I saw and did many weapon upgrades of my own.
Keeping an item for sentinmental reasons is good role playing but not much sense.
I mean imagine if the police were required to upgrade their weapons and get new body armor and someone's like, "No man, my current gear is sentimental." He'd be laughed off the force.
Roleplaying does not necessarily mean you have to be stupid in your sentimentality. As others have mentioned, you can have your weaposn upgraded. Even better, if you use something like Artifacts of the Ancients, your weapons grow with you in the first place.
Kemrain
First Post
My current character has taken the golf bag idea and ran with it. She has tons of weapons, but the more she collects the more selective she becomes. It seems that, eventually, she'll be outfitted with 4 scimitars, 1 pair steel human bade and the other pair cold iron, a pair of cold iron stilettos (1d4 20/x4 non throwable daggers), a silver dagger, a cold iron light mace, a comosit shortbow with silver, steel and cold iron arrows, and a wand that does lightning/negitive energy damage. She couldn't carry all that without her cloak with a 5 cupic foot extradimentional space inside it, though.
If it needs special materials to be hurt, she'll carry special materials. Doesn't bother her (except that special materials take a lot longer to craft).
- Kemrain the Golf Bagger.
If it needs special materials to be hurt, she'll carry special materials. Doesn't bother her (except that special materials take a lot longer to craft).
- Kemrain the Golf Bagger.
Patryn of Elvenshae
First Post
Rodrigo Istalindir said:
Maybe it's just me, but did you read what I wrote?
The Item Creation feats mean that I don't ever have to trade in my rapier. I can get it magicked up as my character goes up in level!
Before, if I needed a +3 rapier, I had to get a new one. And believe you me, I needed a +3 rapier or I'd do 0 damage to any "level-appropriate" enemy (remember the old, "Can only be harmed by weapons of +3 and greater"?). And my old masterwork rapier would sit on a shelf, alone and forgotten.
Aust Diamondew
First Post
I allow weapons to be upgraded as the game goes on. So often times a PC will use the same weapon as his primary weapon for a large portion (or the entirity) of his carreer.
JoeGKushner said:
I've seen this attitude before. A half-dragon dwarf Paragon of Police Enforcement from the 13th Precinct was given the opportunity to swap his Demonic Pepper Spray +3 (+5 vs. Pimps), which he had used since he was a beat cop, and he didn't give a second thought to picking a more generic +4 Billy Club because it had a better bonus across a wider range of situations.
:\ But there's no telling for individual tastes, eh?
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Driddle said:
Roleplaying is great but it's in the context of a game where mechanical bonuses are very useful for survival. Roleplaying to the exclusion of getting yourself killed is great role playing but a bit grandstanding no?
"Ah, if only Helmok had taken the +4 long sword bane against demons instead of keeping his +1 sword..."
For better or worse things escalate in standard D&D campaigns. In other settings like Black Company or Lankhimar, it wouldn't be a question of any escalation, merely of finding a weapon.
Quasqueton
First Post
The more common version:
"But I kinda miss the old days, where we found a magic sword in every adventure, so it was foolish to specialize in any weapon other than longsword. And we used it for level after level -- until we found the +2 sword and just put the +1 in storage (read: back of the character sheet). No magic shops [just like nowadays], no place where you could get a custom item made. A magic sword was common adventure treasure -- you named it "sword +X", bards collected them. You couldn't lose it, because there were no official rules for disarming and sundering aside from various house rules for fumbles. But if you did lose it, you looked on the back of your character sheet for the backup sword. Your weapon was a part of your character sheet that gave you a bonus on your to hit roll and damage, except for those items your DM specially created for you to find and think special because you knew it was directly designed for you to find."
All these "in the good ole days" complaints bare little resemblance to the actuality of common experiences.
Quasqueton
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Quasqueton said:
As written in adventure modules I'd agree. As adventurers became higher, the loot became higher.
As done by individual GMs?
YMMV and all that.
Quasqueton
First Post
The seemingly commonly accepted concept of "magic was rare and wonderous in early editions of AD&D1/2" can be proven patently untrue by looking at the actual published materials of the edition. So of course, lets not look at the published material.
The argued concept of "magic is common and mechanical in D&D3" can be proven patently untrue by looking at the actual published material of the edition. So of course, lets make unfounded generalities with no basis in actual published material.
If we can't look at the published game materials as evidence of how the game was/is at least set up to be played, then we are just discussing our own personal house rules and game style -- not the game system itself.
Quasqueton
