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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 5296697" data-attributes="member: 9789"><s>This is really two proposals, so I'll call them A and B.  They're extremely related to each other and to another proposal I just made, however, so I've made one thread for both.</s>A.  Adopt <a href="http://leb.wikia.com/wiki/LEB:Character_Creation#3e._Choose_Equipment" target="_blank">LEB's parcel system</a> for treasure.Reason:  It's more fair, it's more simple, it's faster to evaluate, it's logical, and frankly, I just like it.  Is it perfect?  Nah.  But I think it's better than just leaving it up to semi-random.Downsides:  There is the chance that some characters will have slightly better items.  My counter to this is:  other characters already have slightly better items, and some characters may be reigned in a bit.  But overall, I'm guessing the average power level will likely rise slightly because I think most DMs here play pretty conservatively when giving out loot.Difficulty:  There is a one-time cost, although it would be distributed over everyone on the board.  We'd have to ask everyone to re-tool their items, and that's no small task.  We might also want a process to give exceptions to anyone who just really hated the idea.  I think we wouldn't need character sheet checkers to go back over anything until the normal checking times, however.<s>I think if my other proposal to allow higher-level characters is passed, the one-time cost would be reduced, as many people would be retooling their PCs anyway.  And it may annoy some people.</s>  I still believe it'd be better for the boards, and better in the long run, and we may as well stop confusing people who play both boards anyway.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><s>B.  Adopt <a href="http://leb.wikia.com/wiki/LEB:Player%27s_Guide#Retirement" target="_blank">LEB's rules on retirement</a>.</s><s></s><s>Reason:  It's simpler and more direct, and if my other proposal passes about starting higher level characters, it'd be necessary to discourage feeder PCs.</s><s></s><s>Downsides:  It makes less sense if my previous proposal and proposal A of this thread don't go through.  If both of them are not approved, this would need a serious re-thinking and possibly need to be scrapped.</s><s></s><s>Difficulty:  I think it'd have zero difficulty, and in fact make things simpler.</s>Comments, thoughts, suggestions?</blockquote>

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