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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2433675" data-attributes="member: 4134">Stick-with-a-nail-in-it.We were always joking about the &quot;superior arms&quot; the enemy had, along the lines of: &quot;oooh, look he's got a stick with a nail in it, I'm afraid&quot;, whenever they used less-than-spectacular weaponry.Sure enouth, in one encounter we found a +1 stick-with-a-nail-in-it. We kept it as a keepsake, together with our &quot;glorious scepter&quot; (we wanted something to cast continual flame on it, and the best the shop had was a chair leg. It was a pretty chair leg, though).In the epic part of the campaign, we later found a +10 stick-with-a-nail-in-it! We sold that one to an arms collector (we were too greedy to keep that one ;-))We had that problem with a player or two: One was a psion, and he'd blast away with all he had, augmenting to the max. This meant that he'd be very effective for a couple of rounds, but after that, he was empty, and started complaining that we should rest or he could as well go home because he was useless.We introduced the rule that every caster/manifester/whatever only got to replenish their resources once per day, just like a cleric. They had to choose a time of day when they could restock, and had to be careful. Works fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 2433675, member: 4134"] [b]Stick-with-a-nail-in-it.[/b] We were always joking about the "superior arms" the enemy had, along the lines of: "oooh, look he's got a stick with a nail in it, I'm afraid", whenever they used less-than-spectacular weaponry. Sure enouth, in one encounter we found a +1 stick-with-a-nail-in-it. We kept it as a keepsake, together with our "glorious scepter" (we wanted something to cast continual flame on it, and the best the shop had was a chair leg. It was a pretty chair leg, though). In the epic part of the campaign, we later found a +10 stick-with-a-nail-in-it! We sold that one to an arms collector (we were too greedy to keep that one ;-)) We had that problem with a player or two: One was a psion, and he'd blast away with all he had, augmenting to the max. This meant that he'd be very effective for a couple of rounds, but after that, he was empty, and started complaining that we should rest or he could as well go home because he was useless. We introduced the rule that every caster/manifester/whatever only got to replenish their resources once per day, just like a cleric. They had to choose a time of day when they could restock, and had to be careful. Works fine. [/QUOTE]

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