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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4010509" data-attributes="member: 10095">No, it doesn't. It simply means rings are more powerful than other items.Magic weapons are incredibly common in fantasy literature. Way more common than rings. Only a few pages into the adventure, Bilbo, Gandalf and Thorin each end up with an artifact weapon, but you only see one magic ring. Drizzt gets a hold of two incredibly magical scimitars, but he doesn't seem to find any rings (and then Aegis-fang, and Catti-brie's bow and that sentient sword... but no rings). The Belgariad has a few magic swords, but no magic rings. Cuchullain had a magic spear. Arthur a magic sword.D&amp;D made rings some common, cheap, novelty item, when mythology and fantasy literature depicts rings as far more mysterious and powerful.And it comes up with the problem of everyone having the same wealth, but two characters being completely disparate in power (and thus in effectiveness at that level), because there is nothing to guide your decisions in any way, because they offer no advice on what's good to spend your money on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 4010509, member: 10095"] No, it doesn't. [b]It simply means rings are more powerful than other items.[/b] Magic weapons are incredibly common in fantasy literature. Way more common than rings. Only a few pages into the adventure, Bilbo, Gandalf and Thorin each end up with an artifact weapon, but you only see one magic ring. Drizzt gets a hold of two incredibly magical scimitars, but he doesn't seem to find any rings (and then Aegis-fang, and Catti-brie's bow and that sentient sword... but no rings). The Belgariad has a few magic swords, but no magic rings. Cuchullain had a magic spear. Arthur a magic sword. D&D made rings some common, cheap, novelty item, when mythology and fantasy literature depicts rings as far more mysterious and powerful. And it comes up with the problem of everyone having the same wealth, but two characters being completely disparate in power (and thus in effectiveness at that level), because there is nothing to guide your decisions in any way, because they offer no advice on what's good to spend your money on. [/QUOTE]

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