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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 2860385" data-attributes="member: 6779">I'm not anti-magic item generally, but what I'd rather see is a smaller number of very cool items, rather than a boatload of items that give +1 here and +2 there.Paladin with +2 elven chain and a +5 holy sword but no other magic items? Rockin'.Paladin with +1 sword, +1 breastplate, +1 shield, ioun stone whizzing around his head giving him +2 Con, cloak of resistance +1, amulet of natural armor +1, boots of striding, gauntlets of ogre power, and ten +1 arrows? Bah.It's purely a fluff-preference point, mind you, but for me it's a crucial one. To that end, the more self-sufficiency, the better! This is why I tend to have high-stats-but-few-magic-items type games. I also like the Conan game's setup of giving all stats a boost every few levels (I seem to recall it's 5, but I may be misremembering), to make up for all those potions and +1 whatevers that the characters aren't getting.It's like those "sense of wonder" threads that went "poof" with the board crash; having a smaller number of more powerful items is skipping to the good stuff. I'd like to see all those piddly-but-universal items edited out all together.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>