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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8076562" data-attributes="member: 6855114">When one of your players wants to play an underdog and you agree to it; it is a part of your job as a DM to make sure that the charcater can shine too. Maybe the caster will find a wand of the war mage? A holy symbol faith that raise spell save DC by one up to a maximum of 15? Or a nice pair of ogres strength gloves? As DM it is so easy to make sure that a cool concept can have a little nudge in the right direction. Our halfling barb found a nice +1 Longsword early in his career and it got used for a long time. A wand of the warmage in the form of a talking skull (well too talkative to the dwarf taste but it was hilarious to see the dwarf arguing with the skull) made wonder for our dwarven sorcerer. That missing +1 is so easy to compensate for. And it because that +1 is missing that you know that the magic's item presence will not unbalance your game and it will make the player so happy that it will be worth it. For an optimized character, such an item is just icing on the cake. For an underdog, it can be a game changing event.</blockquote>