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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9627356">I agree. Nothing takes me out of the game like the GM saying "There is a +1 sword in the pile of treasure". This is probably one of the reasons why wish lists in 3E started to bug me (it felt like players were making choices about the character based entirely around the mechanics). What I usually do in my campaigns is every magic weapon and item has lore and often a name. And if they find some +1 sword that doesn't have that, I might simply describe it as being especially well balanced when they grip it Incidentally there is a great movie I just saw called The Sword (by Patrick Tam), that kind of deals with this low level enchantment (in the movie the swords might not even actually be magical, it is kind of left to interpretation). But in the introduction a character goes to a black smith who has just finished making him the ultimate sword (called the Hanxing Sword). The man then fives him a dark looking sword he found and says he thinks the two will pair well. But the black smith looks stunned and says that the other sword appears to have been forged in hate and will destroy whoever possesses it. This is the sort of flavor I imagine when it comes to dealing with +1 swords and cursed swords</blockquote>