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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9524249" data-attributes="member: 29398">IMO they should be casting Identify fairly often if-when they can, and treating magic items with a fair degree of suspicion.&nbsp; I'm also a big fan of field-testing items rather than just have them tell you their properties after a period of attunement.Did 5e do away with the costs of casting said mundane spell?&nbsp; It used to require a 100+ g.p. pearl, and also (in 1e) knocked the caster flat for 8 hours; which means casting it isn't always the best thing to do at the time and pearl supply can be a major limiter.Also, it can be fun to have an item that's both useful and cursed at the same time - for example a horde-summoning sword of giant-slaying that's cursed such that if you become aware of a giant (even at a great distance) you are forced to draw the sword and charge to the attack with your summoned horde.&nbsp; I've known (and played!) characters who would line up to get their hands on such a weapon. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9524249, member: 29398"] IMO they should be casting [I]Identify[/I] fairly often if-when they can, and treating magic items with a fair degree of suspicion. I'm also a big fan of field-testing items rather than just have them tell you their properties after a period of attunement. Did 5e do away with the costs of casting said mundane spell? It used to require a 100+ g.p. pearl, and also (in 1e) knocked the caster flat for 8 hours; which means casting it isn't always the best thing to do at the time and pearl supply can be a major limiter. Also, it can be fun to have an item that's both useful and cursed at the same time - for example a horde-summoning sword of giant-slaying that's cursed such that if you become aware of a giant (even at a great distance) you are forced to draw the sword and charge to the attack with your summoned horde. I've known (and played!) characters who would line up to get their hands on such a weapon. :) [/QUOTE]

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